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 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 

-Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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+* Changes in Wget 1.9.
+
+** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
+requests.  For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
+send a POST request with the specified contents.
+
+** IPv6 is experimentally supported.
+
+** The `--timeout' option now affects DNS lookup and establishing the
+connection as well.  Previously it only affected reading and writing
+data.
+
+** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
+recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
+The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
+
+** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
+firewalls.  Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
+log on to the proxy as "username@host".
+
+** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
+even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
+considered a fatal error.
+
+** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from
+caching DNS lookups.
+
+** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
+whether they're appropriate in URLs.  Escaping can still occur for
+nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
+characters such as space.  You can use the new option
+--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
+useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
+non-native partitions.
+
+** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
+users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
+declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
+Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
+
+** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
+as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
+
+** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
+values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
+\f
+* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
+* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f

 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
 
 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
 
 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.


@@ -14,11 +64,11 @@ dotted indicator).  You can permanently revert to the old progress
 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
 
 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
 
 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the

-`--limit-rate' option.  For example, "wget --limit-rate=15k URL" will
+`--limit-rate' option.  For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will

 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
 per second.
 
 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
 per second.
 

-** "Recursive retrieval" has been revamped:
+** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:

 
 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first.  This makes the
 calculation of depth much more reliable than before.  Also, recursive
 
 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first.  This makes the
 calculation of depth much more reliable than before.  Also, recursive


@@ -33,16 +83,37 @@ have been downloaded.
 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
 
 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
 

+*** HTML anchors are now handled correctly.  Links to an anchor in the
+same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
+are now converted correctly.
+
+*** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
+retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
+to display the page.
+
+*** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames.  In other words,
+`wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
+and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
+
+** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
+base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
+relative.
+
+** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
+addresses when accessing the first one fails.
+

 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
 non-standard port.
 
 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
 non-standard port.
 
 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in

-<http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>.
+<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.

 
 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
 
 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous

-quoting bug.  Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F'
-is no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'.  Unsafe characters
+quoting.  Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
+no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'.  Unsafe characters

 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.

+
+** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.

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 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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