On 05/06, Ángel wrote:
Follow-up Comment #3, bug #45037 (project wget):It's clearly a bug. If we are downloading README to local file foo, there's no reason to remove the local symlink README.
I agree. This is definitely a bug.
My guess is, we should default to shell like behaviour and provide a command line option to instead replace the file, if the user wishes so.When we want to save into a name where there's currently a symlink, consistency with shell > would dictate just to follow the link on writing, but as that may lead to security issues, replacing with a file may also be acceptable.
Given that this is a clearly documented feature of Wget, that -O is supposed to work as shell redirection, I think it should not pose too many issues. Yes, there is the security risk where another file may be overwritten, but I think the user should be careful about those.
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