Re: [Bug-wget] Re: Storing the URL in extended attributes

[Petr Pisar]

On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 12:27:24PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Am 2010-10-17 22:38:51, hacktest Du folgendes herunter:
> > I created a patch to store the URL inside the user xattrs of the downloaded
> > file; this way, its origin can be identified afterwards.
> > 
> > I uploaded the change to my Github account and attached the diff, and I am
> > still working on portability issues, but I'd like to hear some opinions on
> > this:
> > 
> > http://github.com/wertarbyte/wget/tree/xattrurl
> 
> I am right that this works only on Windos and not GNU/Linux?
> 
See my patch for wget
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/7894>. It works on
GNU/Linux, IRIX and Darwin. Other option is to use libattr as the API is not
standardized (it support IRIX and GNU/Linux only). FreeBSD has yet another
API.

-- Petr

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