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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
11 ** Add support for file names longer than MAX_FILE.
13 ** Support FTP listing for the FTP Server on Windows Server 2008 R2.
15 ** Fix a regression when -c and --content-disposition are used together.
17 ** Support shorthand URLs in an input file.
19 * Changes in Wget 1.14
21 ** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP
22 payload on 4xx or 5xx errors.
24 ** Add support for WARC files.
26 ** Fix a memory leak problem in the GNU TLS backend.
28 ** Autoreconf works again for distributed tarballs.
30 ** Print some diagnostic messages to stderr not to stdout.
32 ** Report stdout close errors.
34 ** Accept the --report-speed option.
36 ** Enable client certificates when GNU TLS is used.
38 ** Add support for TLS Server Name Indication.
40 ** Accept the arguments --accept-reject and --reject-regex.
42 ** The GNU TLS backend honors correctly the timeout value.
44 ** Add support for RFC 2617 Digest Access Authentication.
46 * Changes in Wget 1.13.4
48 ** Now --version and --help work again.
50 ** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc.
52 ** Now --timestamping and --continue work well together.
54 ** Return a network failure when FTP downloads fail and --timestamping
57 ** Fix a segfault on an incomplete STYLE tag.
59 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
63 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
66 ** Fix some portability issues.
68 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
70 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
72 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
74 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
76 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
78 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
80 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
83 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
84 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
86 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
88 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
90 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
91 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
92 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
93 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
95 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
98 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
101 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
103 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
105 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
108 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
109 on a network error and -nc is used.
111 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
114 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
116 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
117 by the same host on different pages.
119 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
120 it is the output destination file.
122 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
123 a DNS name when it is resolved.
125 * Changes in Wget 1.12
127 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
129 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
130 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
131 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
132 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
134 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
135 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
136 style tags and attributes.
137 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
138 --convert-links is specified.
139 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
140 when --convert-links is specified.
142 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
143 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
145 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
146 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
147 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
148 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
149 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
151 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
152 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
154 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
155 support alternative default names for index.html.
157 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
158 support password prompts at the console.
160 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
163 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
164 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
167 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
168 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
169 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
171 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
172 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
174 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
175 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
176 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
177 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
179 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
181 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
182 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
184 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
185 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
186 locally with content.
188 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
189 to a pointer-to-time_t.
191 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
193 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
195 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
197 ** Translation updates
199 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
201 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
202 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
204 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
205 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
206 meaningful, is still an error.)
208 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
209 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
211 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
212 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
213 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
214 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
216 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
217 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
218 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
221 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
223 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
224 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
226 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
227 related assertion failure was fixed).
229 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
230 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
232 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
233 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
234 useful for some limited cases.
236 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
237 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
238 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
240 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
241 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
243 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
245 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
246 rather than the first one it got.
248 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
249 header in recursive fetches.
251 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
252 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
253 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
254 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
255 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
256 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
257 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
259 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
260 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
262 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
263 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
264 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
265 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
266 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
269 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
270 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
271 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
273 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
274 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
275 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
277 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
278 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
279 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
280 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
281 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
283 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
284 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
285 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
286 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
287 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
289 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
291 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
292 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
293 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
295 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
296 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
297 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
298 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
301 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
302 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
303 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
304 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
306 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
307 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
308 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
309 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
310 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
311 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
312 when downloading to stdout.
316 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
317 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
318 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
319 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
320 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
321 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
322 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
323 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
325 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
326 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
328 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
329 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
330 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
331 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
332 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
333 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
334 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
336 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
337 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
338 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
341 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
342 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
343 are no longer supported.
345 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
346 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
347 revert to the old behavior.
349 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
350 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
351 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
352 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
353 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
355 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
356 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
357 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
359 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
360 not arrive from the network.
362 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
363 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
364 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
365 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
366 be used to revert to the old behavior.
368 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
369 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
371 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
372 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
373 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
374 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
375 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
378 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
379 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
380 specified via `.wgetrc'.
382 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
383 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
384 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
385 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
386 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
389 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
390 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
391 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
392 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
393 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
394 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
395 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
396 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
398 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
400 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
402 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
404 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
405 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
406 send a POST request with the specified contents.
408 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
410 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
411 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
412 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
413 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
416 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
417 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
418 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
420 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
421 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
422 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
424 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
425 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
426 considered a fatal error.
428 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
431 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
432 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
433 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
434 characters such as space. You can use the new option
435 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
436 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
437 non-native partitions.
439 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
440 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
441 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
442 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
444 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
445 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
447 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
448 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
450 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
451 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
452 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
454 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
456 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
458 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
460 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
461 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
462 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
463 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
464 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
466 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
467 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
468 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
471 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
473 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
474 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
475 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
478 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
479 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
480 have been downloaded.
482 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
483 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
484 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
486 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
487 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
488 are now converted correctly.
490 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
491 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
494 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
495 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
496 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
498 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
499 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
502 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
503 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
505 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
508 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
509 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
511 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
512 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
513 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
514 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
516 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
518 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
520 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
522 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
523 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
526 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
527 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
528 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
530 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
531 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
532 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
533 stressing for the server and the network.
535 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
538 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
539 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
541 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
542 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
545 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
546 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
547 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
548 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
551 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
553 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
554 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
555 large sites (thousands of documents).
557 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
558 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
559 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
560 distribution installed on your system.
562 * Changes in Wget 1.6
564 ** Administrative changes.
566 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
567 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
568 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
569 are being helped by many other people.
571 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
574 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
576 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
577 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
578 the web page for downloading instructions.
580 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
581 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
582 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
584 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
585 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
586 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
587 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
589 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
590 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
591 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
592 default in the system wgetrc.
594 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
595 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
596 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
598 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
599 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
600 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
602 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
603 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
604 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
606 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
608 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
609 bound to multiple IP addresses.
611 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
613 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
615 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
617 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
619 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
621 ** Wget speaks many languages!
623 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
624 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
625 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
627 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
629 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
631 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
633 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
635 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
636 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
638 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
641 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
642 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
644 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
647 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
648 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
651 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
653 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
654 standards set by other GNU utilities.
656 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
657 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
659 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
662 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
663 distributed with Wget.
665 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
667 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
669 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
671 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
673 ** Can do passive FTP.
677 ** Info documentation expanded.
679 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
681 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
685 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
687 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
688 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
690 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
692 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
694 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
697 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
699 ** --convert-links should work now.
703 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
707 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
709 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
711 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
713 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
714 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
715 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
716 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
717 most importantly, use.
719 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
720 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
722 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
723 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
724 wget http://user:password@hostname/
726 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
727 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
728 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
730 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
731 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
733 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
734 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
736 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
738 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
739 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
741 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
744 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
745 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
748 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
749 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
750 sysadmin to like you).
752 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
754 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
757 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
758 through a proxy server.
760 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
761 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
763 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
766 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
767 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
769 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
771 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
773 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
775 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
776 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
778 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
779 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
781 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
783 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
784 turn on mirroring options).
786 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
788 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
790 ** A host of bugfixes.
792 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
794 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
796 ** Added support for no_proxy
798 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
800 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
802 ** More natural command-line options
804 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
806 ** Added support for robots.txt
808 ** Fixed some minor bugs
810 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
812 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
814 ** REST supported in FTP
816 ** Proxy servers supported
818 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
819 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
820 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
822 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
824 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
826 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
828 ** autoconf supported
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