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11 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
13 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
14 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
15 style tags and attributes.
16 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
17 --convert-links is specified.
18 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
19 when --convert-links is specified.
21 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
22 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
24 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
25 3987). When support is enabled (default), links with non-ASCII bytes
26 are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8 before percent-encoding.
28 IRI support was added by Saint Xavier <wget@sxav.eu>, as his
29 project for the Google Summer of Code.
31 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
32 support alternative default names for index.html.
34 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
35 support password prompts at the console.
37 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
40 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
41 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
44 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options
45 are now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent.
47 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
49 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
50 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
52 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
53 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
56 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
57 to a pointer-to-time_t.
59 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
61 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
63 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
65 ** Translation updates
67 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
69 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
70 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
72 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
73 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
74 meaningful, is still an error.)
76 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
77 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
79 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
80 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
81 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
82 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
84 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
85 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
86 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
89 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
91 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
92 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
94 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
95 related assertion failure was fixed).
97 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
98 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
100 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
101 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
102 useful for some limited cases.
104 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
105 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
106 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
108 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
109 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
111 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
113 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
114 rather than the first one it got.
116 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
117 header in recursive fetches.
119 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
120 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
121 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
122 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
123 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
124 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
125 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
127 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
128 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
130 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
131 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
132 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
133 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
134 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
137 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
138 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
139 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
141 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
142 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
143 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
145 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
146 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
147 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
148 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
149 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
151 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
152 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
153 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
154 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
155 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
157 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
159 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
160 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
161 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
163 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
164 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
165 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
166 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
169 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
170 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
171 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
172 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
174 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
175 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
176 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
177 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
178 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
179 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
180 when downloading to stdout.
184 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
185 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
186 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
187 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
188 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
189 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
190 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
191 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
193 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
194 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
196 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
197 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
198 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
199 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
200 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
201 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
202 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
204 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
205 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
206 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
209 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
210 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
211 are no longer supported.
213 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
214 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
215 revert to the old behavior.
217 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
218 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
219 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
220 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
221 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
223 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
224 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
225 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
227 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
228 not arrive from the network.
230 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
231 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
232 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
233 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
234 be used to revert to the old behavior.
236 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
237 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
239 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
240 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
241 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
242 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
243 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
246 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
247 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
248 specified via `.wgetrc'.
250 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
251 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
252 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
253 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
254 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
257 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
258 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
259 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
260 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
261 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
262 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
263 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
264 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
266 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
268 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
270 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
272 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
273 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
274 send a POST request with the specified contents.
276 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
278 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
279 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
280 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
281 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
284 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
285 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
286 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
288 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
289 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
290 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
292 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
293 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
294 considered a fatal error.
296 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
299 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
300 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
301 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
302 characters such as space. You can use the new option
303 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
304 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
305 non-native partitions.
307 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
308 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
309 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
310 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
312 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
313 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
315 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
316 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
318 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
319 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
320 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
322 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
324 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
326 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
328 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
329 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
330 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
331 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
332 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
334 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
335 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
336 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
339 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
341 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
342 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
343 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
346 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
347 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
348 have been downloaded.
350 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
351 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
352 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
354 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
355 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
356 are now converted correctly.
358 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
359 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
362 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
363 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
364 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
366 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
367 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
370 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
371 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
373 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
376 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
377 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
379 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
380 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
381 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
382 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
384 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
386 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
388 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
390 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
391 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
394 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
395 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
396 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
398 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
399 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
400 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
401 stressing for the server and the network.
403 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
406 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
407 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
409 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
410 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
413 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
414 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
415 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
416 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
419 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
421 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
422 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
423 large sites (thousands of documents).
425 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
426 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
427 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
428 distribution installed on your system.
430 * Changes in Wget 1.6
432 ** Administrative changes.
434 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
435 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
436 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
437 are being helped by many other people.
439 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
442 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
444 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
445 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
446 the web page for downloading instructions.
448 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
449 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
450 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
452 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
453 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
454 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
455 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
457 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
458 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
459 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
460 default in the system wgetrc.
462 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
463 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
464 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
466 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
467 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
468 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
470 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
471 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
472 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
474 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
476 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
477 bound to multiple IP addresses.
479 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
481 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
483 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
485 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
487 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
489 ** Wget speaks many languages!
491 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
492 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
493 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
495 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
497 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
499 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
501 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
503 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
504 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
506 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
509 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
510 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
512 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
515 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
516 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
519 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
521 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
522 standards set by other GNU utilities.
524 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
525 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
527 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
530 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
531 distributed with Wget.
533 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
535 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
537 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
539 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
541 ** Can do passive FTP.
545 ** Info documentation expanded.
547 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
549 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
553 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
555 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
556 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
558 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
560 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
562 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
565 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
567 ** --convert-links should work now.
571 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
575 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
577 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
579 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
581 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
582 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
583 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
584 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
585 most importantly, use.
587 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
588 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
590 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
591 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
592 wget http://user:password@hostname/
594 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
595 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
596 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
598 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
599 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
601 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
602 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
604 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
606 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
607 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
609 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
612 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
613 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
616 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
617 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
618 sysadmin to like you).
620 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
622 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
625 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
626 through a proxy server.
628 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
629 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
631 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
634 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
635 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
637 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
639 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
641 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
643 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
644 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
646 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
647 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
649 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
651 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
652 turn on mirroring options).
654 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
656 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
658 ** A host of bugfixes.
660 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
662 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
664 ** Added support for no_proxy
666 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
668 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
670 ** More natural command-line options
672 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
674 ** Added support for robots.txt
676 ** Fixed some minor bugs
678 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
680 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
682 ** REST supported in FTP
684 ** Proxy servers supported
686 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
687 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
688 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
690 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
692 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
694 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
696 ** autoconf supported
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