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