From 950110ecb17c5893c3f59435dbb1d4b6ff520717 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 07:42:23 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added a few ideas --- docs/TODO | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/TODO b/docs/TODO index 4b08e55..6d50f29 100644 --- a/docs/TODO +++ b/docs/TODO @@ -17,6 +17,20 @@ For the future 300' convention. It should be able to work if '-m300' is considered to be space separated to the next option. + * Make the curl tool support URLs that start with @ that would then mean that + the following is a plain list with URLs to download. Thus @filename.txt + reads a list of URLs from a local file. A fancy option would then be to + support @http://whatever.com that would first load a list and then get the + URLs mentioned in the list. I figure -O or something would have to be + implied by such an action. + + * Improve the regular progress meter with --continue is used. It should be + noticable when there's a resume going on. + + * Add a command line option that allows the output file to get the same time + stamp as the remote file. This requires some fiddling on FTP but comes + almost free for HTTP. + * Make the SSL layer option capable of using the Mozilla Security Services as an alternative to OpenSSL: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/security/pki/nss/ @@ -30,7 +44,9 @@ For the future * Move non-URL related functions that are used by both the lib and the curl application to a separate "portability lib". - * Add support for other languages than C. C++ and perl comes to mind. Python? + * Add support for other languages than C. C++ (rumours have been heard about + something being worked on in this area) and perl (we have seen the first + versions of this!) comes to mind. Python anyone? * Improve the -K config file parser (the parameter following the flag should be possible to get specified *exactly* as it is done on a shell command -- 2.7.4