Index of /wget-xattr

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[TXT] dumpxattrs.c               2008-04-07 21:14  1.2K  
[   ] http.response              2008-04-07 21:14  368   
[TXT] setxattr.c                 2008-04-07 21:14  781   
[   ] wget-1.11.1-xattr.diff     2008-04-14 15:13  8.6K  
[   ] wget-1.11.1-xattr.diff.asc 2008-04-14 15:13  189   
[   ] wget-1.12-xattr.diff       2009-10-08 20:54  9.2K  
[   ] wget-1.12-xattr.diff.asc   2009-10-08 20:54  190   
[   ] wget-1.13-xattr.diff       2011-09-04 21:27  9.7K  
[   ] wget-1.13-xattr.diff.asc   2011-09-04 21:28  230   

This patch presents effort for more semantic world.

It allows wget to store some file meta-data retrieved from HTTP into POSIX
extended attributes. Current implementation does following mapping:

Content-Type → user.mime_type
Content-Type with charset parameter → user.charset 
Encoding → user.mime_encoding

This functionality is compile-time configurable using --{enable|disable}-xattr
switch.

Due to non-standardized xattr interface, only following platforms are supported
now: IRIX, Linux, and Mac OS X.

More information about extended attributes can be found on
[http://freedesktop.org/wiki/CommonExtendedAttributes] and on
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes].

Similar patch saving URL of the file into user.Content-Location has been
provided and discussed on
[http://ml.osdir.com/web.wget.patches/2005-08/msg00012.html]. Unfortunatelly,
maintainer didn't like it.

Also this patch has not been accepted
[http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/7894].