On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:15:02AM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote: > It would help us to determine the importance of this feature, if you > could supply a concrete usage scenario. Presumably you're actually in a > situation where this would be helpful, so perhaps you can describe a > little more about what you're currently doing?
I've run into several cases where a tool wanted to fetch data from a URI, and I ended up using a file on a web server to feed data to that program; a data URI would have worked more conveniently. I don't recall the particular example that prompted the feature request, but I can give a few more specific examples: - Test suites for programs which accept URIs, but don't want to run a local web server just to run the test suite. - Mechanisms similar to debian-installer's preseeding, which want a file of configuration options. debian-installer supports specifying those options directly on the kernel command line instead of using a preseed file, but not all such mechanisms do, and having support in wget would avoid the need for a special case. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
