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Welcome to the Wget wiki!

This project is about adding two performance enhancements to wget: conditional GET requests and TCP Fast Open.

Public version of GSoC proposal: http://pliki.h.trsk.org/gsoc/wget_public.pdf

Useful links

• http date format: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
• if-modified-since and other conditionals field: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232#page-16
• tcp fast open: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7413
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1046716368979dee857a2b8a91c4a8833f21b9cb
• metalink over http http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6249#section-4
• metalink4 files: http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
• metalink over http files: https://download.gnome.org/apps/3.0/3.0.0/sources/
• autohell autobook https://www.sourceware.org/autobook/autobook/autobook_toc.html

Interesting test cases

• Make sure that content disposition disables condget (or other way around)
• Check each subset of options: { timestamping, cond_get }
• What happens if If-Modified-Since is newer than Last-Modified on the server? (Not really wgets problem, but may be interesting.)