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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
13 ** Fix some portability issues.
15 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
17 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
19 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
21 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
23 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
25 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
27 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
30 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
31 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
33 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
35 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
37 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
38 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
39 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
40 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
42 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
45 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
48 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
50 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
52 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
55 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
56 on a network error and -nc is used.
58 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
61 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
63 * Changes in Wget 1.12
65 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
67 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
68 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
69 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
70 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
72 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
73 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
74 style tags and attributes.
75 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
76 --convert-links is specified.
77 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
78 when --convert-links is specified.
80 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
81 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
83 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
84 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
85 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
86 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
87 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
89 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
90 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
92 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
93 support alternative default names for index.html.
95 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
96 support password prompts at the console.
98 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
101 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
102 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
105 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
106 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
107 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
109 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
110 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
112 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
113 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
114 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
115 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
117 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
119 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
120 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
122 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
123 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
124 locally with content.
126 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
127 to a pointer-to-time_t.
129 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
131 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
133 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
135 ** Translation updates
137 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
139 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
140 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
142 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
143 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
144 meaningful, is still an error.)
146 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
147 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
149 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
150 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
151 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
152 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
154 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
155 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
156 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
159 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
161 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
162 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
164 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
165 related assertion failure was fixed).
167 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
168 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
170 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
171 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
172 useful for some limited cases.
174 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
175 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
176 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
178 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
179 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
181 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
183 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
184 rather than the first one it got.
186 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
187 header in recursive fetches.
189 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
190 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
191 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
192 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
193 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
194 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
195 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
197 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
198 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
200 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
201 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
202 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
203 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
204 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
207 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
208 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
209 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
211 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
212 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
213 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
215 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
216 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
217 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
218 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
219 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
221 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
222 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
223 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
224 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
225 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
227 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
229 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
230 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
231 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
233 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
234 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
235 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
236 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
239 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
240 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
241 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
242 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
244 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
245 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
246 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
247 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
248 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
249 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
250 when downloading to stdout.
254 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
255 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
256 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
257 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
258 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
259 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
260 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
261 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
263 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
264 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
266 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
267 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
268 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
269 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
270 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
271 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
272 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
274 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
275 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
276 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
279 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
280 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
281 are no longer supported.
283 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
284 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
285 revert to the old behavior.
287 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
288 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
289 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
290 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
291 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
293 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
294 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
295 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
297 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
298 not arrive from the network.
300 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
301 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
302 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
303 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
304 be used to revert to the old behavior.
306 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
307 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
309 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
310 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
311 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
312 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
313 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
316 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
317 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
318 specified via `.wgetrc'.
320 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
321 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
322 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
323 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
324 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
327 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
328 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
329 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
330 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
331 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
332 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
333 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
334 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
336 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
338 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
340 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
342 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
343 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
344 send a POST request with the specified contents.
346 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
348 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
349 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
350 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
351 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
354 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
355 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
356 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
358 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
359 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
360 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
362 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
363 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
364 considered a fatal error.
366 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
369 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
370 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
371 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
372 characters such as space. You can use the new option
373 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
374 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
375 non-native partitions.
377 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
378 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
379 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
380 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
382 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
383 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
385 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
386 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
388 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
389 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
390 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
392 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
394 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
396 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
398 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
399 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
400 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
401 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
402 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
404 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
405 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
406 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
409 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
411 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
412 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
413 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
416 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
417 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
418 have been downloaded.
420 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
421 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
422 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
424 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
425 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
426 are now converted correctly.
428 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
429 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
432 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
433 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
434 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
436 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
437 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
440 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
441 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
443 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
446 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
447 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
449 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
450 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
451 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
452 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
454 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
456 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
458 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
460 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
461 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
464 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
465 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
466 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
468 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
469 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
470 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
471 stressing for the server and the network.
473 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
476 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
477 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
479 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
480 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
483 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
484 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
485 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
486 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
489 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
491 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
492 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
493 large sites (thousands of documents).
495 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
496 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
497 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
498 distribution installed on your system.
500 * Changes in Wget 1.6
502 ** Administrative changes.
504 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
505 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
506 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
507 are being helped by many other people.
509 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
512 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
514 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
515 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
516 the web page for downloading instructions.
518 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
519 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
520 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
522 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
523 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
524 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
525 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
527 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
528 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
529 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
530 default in the system wgetrc.
532 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
533 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
534 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
536 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
537 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
538 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
540 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
541 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
542 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
544 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
546 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
547 bound to multiple IP addresses.
549 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
551 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
553 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
555 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
557 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
559 ** Wget speaks many languages!
561 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
562 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
563 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
565 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
567 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
569 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
571 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
573 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
574 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
576 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
579 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
580 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
582 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
585 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
586 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
589 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
591 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
592 standards set by other GNU utilities.
594 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
595 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
597 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
600 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
601 distributed with Wget.
603 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
605 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
607 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
609 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
611 ** Can do passive FTP.
615 ** Info documentation expanded.
617 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
619 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
623 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
625 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
626 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
628 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
630 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
632 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
635 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
637 ** --convert-links should work now.
641 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
645 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
647 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
649 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
651 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
652 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
653 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
654 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
655 most importantly, use.
657 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
658 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
660 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
661 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
662 wget http://user:password@hostname/
664 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
665 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
666 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
668 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
669 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
671 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
672 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
674 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
676 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
677 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
679 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
682 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
683 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
686 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
687 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
688 sysadmin to like you).
690 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
692 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
695 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
696 through a proxy server.
698 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
699 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
701 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
704 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
705 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
707 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
709 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
711 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
713 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
714 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
716 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
717 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
719 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
721 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
722 turn on mirroring options).
724 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
726 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
728 ** A host of bugfixes.
730 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
732 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
734 ** Added support for no_proxy
736 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
738 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
740 ** More natural command-line options
742 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
744 ** Added support for robots.txt
746 ** Fixed some minor bugs
748 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
750 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
752 ** REST supported in FTP
754 ** Proxy servers supported
756 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
757 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
758 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
760 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
762 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
764 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
766 ** autoconf supported
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