The rules for FTP are somewhat specific, as it is necessary for
them to be. FTP links in HTML documents are often included
for purposes of reference, and it is often inconvenient to download them
by default.
To have FTP links followed from HTML documents, you need to
specify the `--follow-ftp' option. Having done that, FTP
links will span hosts regardless of `-H' setting. This is logical,
as FTP links rarely point to the same host where the HTTP
server resides. For similar reasons, the `-L' options has no
effect on such downloads. On the other hand, domain acceptance
(`-D') and suffix rules (`-A' and `-R') apply normally.
Also note that followed links to FTP directories will not be
retrieved recursively further.
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