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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
14 * Changes in Wget 1.12
16 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
18 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
19 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
20 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
21 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
23 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
24 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
25 style tags and attributes.
26 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
27 --convert-links is specified.
28 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
29 when --convert-links is specified.
31 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
32 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
34 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
35 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
36 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
37 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
38 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
40 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
41 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
43 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
44 support alternative default names for index.html.
46 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
47 support password prompts at the console.
49 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
52 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
53 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
56 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
57 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
58 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
60 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
61 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
63 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
64 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
65 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
66 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
68 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
70 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
71 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
73 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
74 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
77 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
78 to a pointer-to-time_t.
80 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
82 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
84 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
86 ** Translation updates
88 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
90 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
91 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
93 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
94 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
95 meaningful, is still an error.)
97 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
98 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
100 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
101 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
102 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
103 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
105 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
106 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
107 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
110 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
112 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
113 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
115 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
116 related assertion failure was fixed).
118 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
119 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
121 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
122 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
123 useful for some limited cases.
125 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
126 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
127 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
129 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
130 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
132 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
134 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
135 rather than the first one it got.
137 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
138 header in recursive fetches.
140 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
141 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
142 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
143 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
144 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
145 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
146 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
148 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
149 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
151 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
152 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
153 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
154 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
155 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
158 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
159 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
160 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
162 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
163 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
164 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
166 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
167 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
168 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
169 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
170 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
172 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
173 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
174 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
175 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
176 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
178 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
180 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
181 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
182 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
184 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
185 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
186 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
187 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
190 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
191 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
192 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
193 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
195 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
196 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
197 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
198 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
199 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
200 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
201 when downloading to stdout.
205 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
206 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
207 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
208 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
209 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
210 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
211 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
212 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
214 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
215 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
217 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
218 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
219 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
220 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
221 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
222 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
223 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
225 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
226 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
227 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
230 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
231 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
232 are no longer supported.
234 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
235 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
236 revert to the old behavior.
238 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
239 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
240 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
241 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
242 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
244 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
245 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
246 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
248 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
249 not arrive from the network.
251 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
252 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
253 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
254 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
255 be used to revert to the old behavior.
257 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
258 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
260 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
261 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
262 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
263 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
264 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
267 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
268 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
269 specified via `.wgetrc'.
271 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
272 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
273 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
274 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
275 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
278 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
279 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
280 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
281 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
282 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
283 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
284 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
285 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
287 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
289 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
291 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
293 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
294 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
295 send a POST request with the specified contents.
297 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
299 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
300 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
301 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
302 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
305 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
306 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
307 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
309 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
310 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
311 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
313 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
314 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
315 considered a fatal error.
317 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
320 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
321 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
322 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
323 characters such as space. You can use the new option
324 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
325 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
326 non-native partitions.
328 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
329 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
330 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
331 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
333 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
334 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
336 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
337 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
339 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
340 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
341 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
343 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
345 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
347 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
349 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
350 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
351 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
352 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
353 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
355 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
356 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
357 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
360 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
362 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
363 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
364 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
367 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
368 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
369 have been downloaded.
371 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
372 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
373 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
375 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
376 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
377 are now converted correctly.
379 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
380 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
383 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
384 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
385 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
387 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
388 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
391 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
392 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
394 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
397 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
398 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
400 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
401 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
402 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
403 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
405 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
407 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
409 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
411 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
412 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
415 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
416 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
417 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
419 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
420 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
421 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
422 stressing for the server and the network.
424 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
427 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
428 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
430 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
431 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
434 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
435 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
436 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
437 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
440 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
442 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
443 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
444 large sites (thousands of documents).
446 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
447 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
448 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
449 distribution installed on your system.
451 * Changes in Wget 1.6
453 ** Administrative changes.
455 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
456 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
457 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
458 are being helped by many other people.
460 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
463 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
465 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
466 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
467 the web page for downloading instructions.
469 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
470 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
471 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
473 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
474 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
475 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
476 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
478 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
479 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
480 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
481 default in the system wgetrc.
483 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
484 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
485 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
487 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
488 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
489 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
491 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
492 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
493 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
495 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
497 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
498 bound to multiple IP addresses.
500 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
502 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
504 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
506 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
508 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
510 ** Wget speaks many languages!
512 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
513 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
514 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
516 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
518 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
520 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
522 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
524 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
525 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
527 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
530 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
531 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
533 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
536 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
537 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
540 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
542 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
543 standards set by other GNU utilities.
545 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
546 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
548 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
551 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
552 distributed with Wget.
554 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
556 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
558 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
560 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
562 ** Can do passive FTP.
566 ** Info documentation expanded.
568 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
570 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
574 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
576 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
577 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
579 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
581 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
583 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
586 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
588 ** --convert-links should work now.
592 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
596 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
598 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
600 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
602 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
603 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
604 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
605 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
606 most importantly, use.
608 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
609 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
611 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
612 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
613 wget http://user:password@hostname/
615 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
616 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
617 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
619 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
620 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
622 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
623 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
625 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
627 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
628 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
630 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
633 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
634 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
637 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
638 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
639 sysadmin to like you).
641 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
643 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
646 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
647 through a proxy server.
649 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
650 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
652 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
655 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
656 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
658 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
660 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
662 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
664 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
665 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
667 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
668 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
670 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
672 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
673 turn on mirroring options).
675 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
677 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
679 ** A host of bugfixes.
681 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
683 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
685 ** Added support for no_proxy
687 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
689 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
691 ** More natural command-line options
693 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
695 ** Added support for robots.txt
697 ** Fixed some minor bugs
699 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
701 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
703 ** REST supported in FTP
705 ** Proxy servers supported
707 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
708 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
709 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
711 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
713 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
715 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
717 ** autoconf supported
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