wget doesn't check for index.html when a directory doesn't have a trailing slash

It's become common practice to have website URLs point to a directory rathe=
r than an HTML file. So rather than "example.com/foo.html", one would go to=
 "example.com/foo", which is a directory that contains an "index.html" file=
, and the server is configured to return that file when the directory is re=
quested. (Often the directory will also contain any images or other related=
 files that are needed by index.html.)
wget seems to only realize this when the link ends in a trailing slash. Tha=
t is, if the homepage at example.com includes a hyperlink to "example.com/f=
oo/", wget will correctly download=C2=A0example.com/foo/index.html. But if =
the homepage links to=C2=A0"example.com/foo", wget will not recognize that =
this is a reference to an index.html file, and it will not be downloaded pr=
operly.

Isaac King