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