[Bug-wget] [bug #50579] wget --continue: Download fails when server does not support HEAD request

[Tim Ruehsen]

Update of bug #50579 (project wget):

                Category:           Program Logic => Feature Request        
                  Status:                    None => Needs Discussion       
                 Summary: wget --continue: URL with trailing slash '/' (but
Content-Disposition) => wget --continue: Download fails when server does not
support HEAD request

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Follow-up Comment #1:

As you already stated, the server should have answered the HEAD request
properly. If a server refuses to do so, --continue currently doesn't work.

Especially with --content-disposition, Wget doesn't know about the filename to
look/save at, so it simply gives up here.

If now Wget tries to be 'clever' and (silently) falls back to the filename
derived from the URL, it could be that the wrong file becomes saved,
clobbered, destroyed (depending on additional options).

So IMO, we better leave it up to the user to *exactly* say what (s)he wants.

The title is misleading, the problem is the same wether with or without
trailing slash.

I leave this bug open for discussion and mark it feature request.

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