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Wget needs C developers for GNU Wget
Category: Developer
Submitted By: micahcowan
Date: Thu Apr 10 21:09:53 2008
Status: Open
This project is part of the GNU Project.
GNU wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command-line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X Window System support, etc.
GNU wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:
* Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
* Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
* NLS-based message files for many different languages
* Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
* Supports HTTP proxies
* Supports HTTP cookies
* Supports persistent HTTP connections
* Unattended / background operation
* Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring
NOTE: we are not using the Savannah CVS for our source repositories. See http://wget.addictivecode.org/RepositoryAccess for information on how to get the latest development sources.
License GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
Details (job description, contact ...):
Wget is in great need of developers (currently, the majority of the work is done by the project maintainer, who has a day-job ;)).
All are welcome to join the community. C, FTP and HTTP experience is most useful for development on Wget.
Our user community is small as well, though our user base is great: so even if you can't help with development, please feel free to get involved.
To get started, check out http://wget.addictivecode.org/HelpingWithWget
Required Skills:
| Skill | Level | Experience |
|---|---|---|
| TCP/IP | Base Knowledge | < 6 Months |
| C | Good Knowledge | 6 Mo - 2 yr |


