Re: Warn that --compression=gzip is not enforced

[Tim Rühsen]

On 31.07.21 13:39, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> > > > > > "TR" == Tim Rühsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> writes:
> TR> If you know that the server sends uncompressed content, you can
> TR> compress it yourself on-the-fly to avoid excessive disk space usage.
> TR> At least it works for single files:
> TR>   wget -O- <URL> | gzip > radio.csv.gz
>
> That's nice but like https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/7516# I am
> interested in wget adding a new option, providing users a guaranteed way
> to prevent network usage charges caused by no way to tell wget "only
> agree to download if the server agrees to compress."

I opened an issue for wget2 for discussion. I agree with the curl 
maintainers PoV that this is a corner case and that implementing it may 
come with a large code complexity.

https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/-/issues/556

Regards, Tim

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