I would like to be able to disable some or all of wget's automatically generated headers. This is useful both for ensuring that servers respond correctly to unusual requests and for enabling communication with servers that don't properly handle some headers.


One implementation option would be to disable all headers via a new option:
--no-headers

The user would then have to manually specify any desired headers using the existing "--header=STRING" option.


An alternative that wouldn't alter wget's existing valid/allowed functionality is to allow specific headers to be removed/undefined:
--header=Connection

Currently this would cause wget to report an error, but instead it could suppress transmission of any "Connection: " header (unless of course the user later opts to define a custom one via --header=STRING).


Thank you very much for considering this.