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8 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
10 ** Now --version works again.
13 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
17 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
20 ** Fix some portability issues.
22 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
24 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
26 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
28 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
30 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
32 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
34 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
37 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
38 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
40 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
42 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
44 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
45 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
46 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
47 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
49 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
52 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
55 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
57 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
59 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
62 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
63 on a network error and -nc is used.
65 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
68 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
70 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
71 by the same host on different pages.
73 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
74 it is the output destination file.
76 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
77 a DNS name when it is resolved.
79 * Changes in Wget 1.12
81 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
83 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
84 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
85 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
86 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
88 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
89 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
90 style tags and attributes.
91 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
92 --convert-links is specified.
93 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
94 when --convert-links is specified.
96 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
97 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
99 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
100 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
101 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
102 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
103 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
105 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
106 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
108 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
109 support alternative default names for index.html.
111 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
112 support password prompts at the console.
114 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
117 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
118 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
121 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
122 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
123 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
125 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
126 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
128 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
129 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
130 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
131 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
133 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
135 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
136 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
138 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
139 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
140 locally with content.
142 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
143 to a pointer-to-time_t.
145 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
147 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
149 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
151 ** Translation updates
153 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
155 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
156 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
158 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
159 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
160 meaningful, is still an error.)
162 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
163 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
165 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
166 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
167 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
168 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
170 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
171 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
172 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
175 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
177 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
178 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
180 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
181 related assertion failure was fixed).
183 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
184 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
186 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
187 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
188 useful for some limited cases.
190 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
191 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
192 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
194 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
195 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
197 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
199 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
200 rather than the first one it got.
202 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
203 header in recursive fetches.
205 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
206 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
207 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
208 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
209 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
210 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
211 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
213 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
214 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
216 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
217 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
218 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
219 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
220 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
223 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
224 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
225 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
227 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
228 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
229 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
231 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
232 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
233 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
234 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
235 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
237 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
238 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
239 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
240 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
241 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
243 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
245 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
246 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
247 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
249 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
250 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
251 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
252 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
255 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
256 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
257 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
258 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
260 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
261 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
262 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
263 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
264 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
265 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
266 when downloading to stdout.
270 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
271 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
272 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
273 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
274 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
275 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
276 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
277 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
279 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
280 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
282 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
283 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
284 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
285 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
286 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
287 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
288 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
290 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
291 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
292 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
295 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
296 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
297 are no longer supported.
299 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
300 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
301 revert to the old behavior.
303 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
304 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
305 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
306 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
307 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
309 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
310 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
311 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
313 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
314 not arrive from the network.
316 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
317 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
318 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
319 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
320 be used to revert to the old behavior.
322 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
323 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
325 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
326 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
327 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
328 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
329 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
332 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
333 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
334 specified via `.wgetrc'.
336 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
337 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
338 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
339 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
340 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
343 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
344 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
345 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
346 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
347 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
348 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
349 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
350 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
352 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
354 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
356 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
358 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
359 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
360 send a POST request with the specified contents.
362 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
364 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
365 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
366 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
367 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
370 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
371 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
372 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
374 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
375 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
376 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
378 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
379 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
380 considered a fatal error.
382 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
385 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
386 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
387 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
388 characters such as space. You can use the new option
389 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
390 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
391 non-native partitions.
393 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
394 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
395 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
396 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
398 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
399 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
401 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
402 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
404 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
405 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
406 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
408 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
410 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
412 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
414 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
415 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
416 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
417 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
418 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
420 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
421 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
422 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
425 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
427 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
428 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
429 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
432 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
433 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
434 have been downloaded.
436 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
437 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
438 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
440 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
441 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
442 are now converted correctly.
444 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
445 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
448 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
449 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
450 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
452 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
453 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
456 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
457 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
459 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
462 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
463 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
465 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
466 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
467 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
468 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
470 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
472 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
474 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
476 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
477 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
480 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
481 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
482 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
484 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
485 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
486 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
487 stressing for the server and the network.
489 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
492 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
493 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
495 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
496 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
499 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
500 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
501 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
502 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
505 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
507 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
508 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
509 large sites (thousands of documents).
511 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
512 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
513 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
514 distribution installed on your system.
516 * Changes in Wget 1.6
518 ** Administrative changes.
520 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
521 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
522 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
523 are being helped by many other people.
525 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
528 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
530 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
531 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
532 the web page for downloading instructions.
534 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
535 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
536 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
538 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
539 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
540 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
541 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
543 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
544 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
545 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
546 default in the system wgetrc.
548 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
549 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
550 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
552 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
553 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
554 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
556 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
557 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
558 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
560 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
562 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
563 bound to multiple IP addresses.
565 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
567 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
569 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
571 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
573 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
575 ** Wget speaks many languages!
577 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
578 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
579 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
581 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
583 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
585 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
587 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
589 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
590 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
592 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
595 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
596 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
598 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
601 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
602 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
605 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
607 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
608 standards set by other GNU utilities.
610 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
611 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
613 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
616 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
617 distributed with Wget.
619 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
621 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
623 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
625 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
627 ** Can do passive FTP.
631 ** Info documentation expanded.
633 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
635 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
639 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
641 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
642 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
644 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
646 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
648 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
651 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
653 ** --convert-links should work now.
657 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
661 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
663 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
665 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
667 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
668 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
669 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
670 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
671 most importantly, use.
673 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
674 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
676 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
677 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
678 wget http://user:password@hostname/
680 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
681 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
682 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
684 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
685 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
687 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
688 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
690 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
692 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
693 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
695 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
698 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
699 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
702 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
703 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
704 sysadmin to like you).
706 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
708 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
711 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
712 through a proxy server.
714 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
715 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
717 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
720 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
721 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
723 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
725 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
727 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
729 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
730 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
732 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
733 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
735 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
737 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
738 turn on mirroring options).
740 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
742 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
744 ** A host of bugfixes.
746 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
748 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
750 ** Added support for no_proxy
752 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
754 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
756 ** More natural command-line options
758 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
760 ** Added support for robots.txt
762 ** Fixed some minor bugs
764 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
766 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
768 ** REST supported in FTP
770 ** Proxy servers supported
772 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
773 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
774 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
776 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
778 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
780 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
782 ** autoconf supported
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