[svn] Rewrite parsing and handling of URLs.

[wget] / NEWS

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 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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+* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
 
 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
@@ -26,6 +28,10 @@ servers.
 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
 
+** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'.  For
+example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
+expect.
+
 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten.  The new one works more
 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly