Lars,

I have attached more patches.

There is a bug that I don't think I'll fix: it is the function
eww-open-file. It doesn't work with a file that doesn't have HTTP
headers.

emacs-wget fetches a file with wget asynchronously. It pops a small
window with the progress of the download.

I have attached my wget.el. I sent the author an e-mail to see if he
would sign the FSF paper work to include it in Emacs.