Bug 194493

Summary:	Downloading a directory does not work
Product:	[Applications] kget	Reporter:	Carsten Pfeiffer <pfeiffer>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KGet authors <kget>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Carsten Pfeiffer 2009-05-29 01:31:52 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

IIRC, kget for KDE3 could download not only files, but also directories, e.g. from an ftp server, sftp or whatever.

This does not seem to work anymore, the created transfer only shows "stalled".

Comment 1 Lukas Appelhans 2010-01-10 23:28:28 UTC

I think this is pretty much the "wget -r" stuff... marking as a duplicate of the wishlist for it...

Lukas

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 57105 ***

Comment 2 Carsten Pfeiffer 2010-01-11 16:48:40 UTC

It *should* be much less work than implementing "wget -r". The latter involves parsing html pages for links, resolving those, having limits, checking for links pointing to the same page, etc.

The former (recursive downloading from protocols that support directory listings) is already implemented in KIO -- kget currently just seems to forbit that.

Comment 3 Carsten Pfeiffer 2010-01-11 16:49:01 UTC

It *should* be much less work than implementing "wget -r". The latter involves parsing html pages for links, resolving those, having limits, checking for links pointing to the same page, etc.

The former (recursive downloading from protocols that support directory listings) is already implemented in KIO -- kget currently just seems to forbid that.