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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
11 ** Add support for --method.
13 ** Add support for file names longer than MAX_FILE.
15 ** Support FTP listing for the FTP Server on Windows Server 2008 R2.
17 ** Fix a regression when -c and --content-disposition are used together.
19 ** Support shorthand URLs in an input file.
21 ** Fix -c with servers that don't specify a content-length.
23 ** Add support for MD5-SESS
25 ** Do not fail on non fatal GNU TLS alerts during handshake.
27 ** Add support for --https-only. When used wget will follow only
28 HTTPS links in recursive mode.
30 * Changes in Wget 1.14
32 ** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP
33 payload on 4xx or 5xx errors.
35 ** Add support for WARC files.
37 ** Fix a memory leak problem in the GNU TLS backend.
39 ** Autoreconf works again for distributed tarballs.
41 ** Print some diagnostic messages to stderr not to stdout.
43 ** Report stdout close errors.
45 ** Accept the --report-speed option.
47 ** Enable client certificates when GNU TLS is used.
49 ** Add support for TLS Server Name Indication.
51 ** Accept the arguments --accept-reject and --reject-regex.
53 ** The GNU TLS backend honors correctly the timeout value.
55 ** Add support for RFC 2617 Digest Access Authentication.
57 * Changes in Wget 1.13.4
59 ** Now --version and --help work again.
61 ** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc.
63 ** Now --timestamping and --continue work well together.
65 ** Return a network failure when FTP downloads fail and --timestamping
68 ** Fix a segfault on an incomplete STYLE tag.
70 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
74 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
77 ** Fix some portability issues.
79 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
81 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
83 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
85 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
87 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
89 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
91 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
94 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
95 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
97 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
99 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
101 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
102 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
103 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
104 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
106 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
109 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
112 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
114 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
116 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
119 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
120 on a network error and -nc is used.
122 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
125 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
127 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
128 by the same host on different pages.
130 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
131 it is the output destination file.
133 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
134 a DNS name when it is resolved.
136 * Changes in Wget 1.12
138 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
140 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
141 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
142 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
143 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
145 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
146 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
147 style tags and attributes.
148 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
149 --convert-links is specified.
150 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
151 when --convert-links is specified.
153 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
154 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
156 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
157 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
158 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
159 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
160 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
162 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
163 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
165 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
166 support alternative default names for index.html.
168 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
169 support password prompts at the console.
171 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
174 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
175 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
178 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
179 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
180 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
182 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
183 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
185 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
186 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
187 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
188 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
190 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
192 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
193 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
195 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
196 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
197 locally with content.
199 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
200 to a pointer-to-time_t.
202 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
204 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
206 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
208 ** Translation updates
210 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
212 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
213 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
215 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
216 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
217 meaningful, is still an error.)
219 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
220 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
222 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
223 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
224 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
225 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
227 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
228 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
229 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
232 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
234 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
235 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
237 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
238 related assertion failure was fixed).
240 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
241 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
243 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
244 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
245 useful for some limited cases.
247 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
248 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
249 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
251 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
252 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
254 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
256 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
257 rather than the first one it got.
259 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
260 header in recursive fetches.
262 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
263 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
264 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
265 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
266 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
267 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
268 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
270 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
271 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
273 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
274 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
275 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
276 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
277 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
280 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
281 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
282 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
284 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
285 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
286 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
288 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
289 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
290 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
291 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
292 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
294 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
295 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
296 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
297 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
298 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
300 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
302 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
303 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
304 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
306 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
307 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
308 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
309 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
312 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
313 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
314 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
315 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
317 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
318 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
319 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
320 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
321 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
322 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
323 when downloading to stdout.
327 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
328 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
329 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
330 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
331 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
332 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
333 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
334 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
336 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
337 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
339 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
340 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
341 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
342 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
343 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
344 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
345 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
347 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
348 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
349 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
352 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
353 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
354 are no longer supported.
356 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
357 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
358 revert to the old behavior.
360 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
361 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
362 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
363 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
364 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
366 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
367 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
368 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
370 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
371 not arrive from the network.
373 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
374 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
375 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
376 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
377 be used to revert to the old behavior.
379 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
380 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
382 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
383 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
384 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
385 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
386 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
389 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
390 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
391 specified via `.wgetrc'.
393 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
394 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
395 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
396 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
397 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
400 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
401 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
402 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
403 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
404 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
405 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
406 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
407 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
409 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
411 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
413 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
415 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
416 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
417 send a POST request with the specified contents.
419 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
421 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
422 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
423 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
424 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
427 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
428 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
429 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
431 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
432 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
433 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
435 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
436 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
437 considered a fatal error.
439 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
442 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
443 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
444 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
445 characters such as space. You can use the new option
446 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
447 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
448 non-native partitions.
450 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
451 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
452 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
453 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
455 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
456 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
458 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
459 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
461 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
462 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
463 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
465 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
467 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
469 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
471 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
472 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
473 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
474 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
475 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
477 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
478 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
479 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
482 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
484 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
485 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
486 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
489 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
490 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
491 have been downloaded.
493 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
494 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
495 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
497 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
498 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
499 are now converted correctly.
501 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
502 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
505 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
506 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
507 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
509 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
510 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
513 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
514 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
516 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
519 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
520 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
522 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
523 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
524 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
525 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
527 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
529 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
531 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
533 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
534 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
537 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
538 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
539 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
541 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
542 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
543 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
544 stressing for the server and the network.
546 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
549 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
550 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
552 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
553 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
556 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
557 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
558 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
559 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
562 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
564 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
565 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
566 large sites (thousands of documents).
568 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
569 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
570 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
571 distribution installed on your system.
573 * Changes in Wget 1.6
575 ** Administrative changes.
577 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
578 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
579 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
580 are being helped by many other people.
582 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
585 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
587 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
588 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
589 the web page for downloading instructions.
591 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
592 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
593 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
595 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
596 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
597 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
598 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
600 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
601 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
602 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
603 default in the system wgetrc.
605 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
606 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
607 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
609 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
610 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
611 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
613 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
614 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
615 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
617 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
619 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
620 bound to multiple IP addresses.
622 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
624 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
626 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
628 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
630 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
632 ** Wget speaks many languages!
634 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
635 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
636 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
638 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
640 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
642 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
644 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
646 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
647 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
649 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
652 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
653 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
655 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
658 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
659 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
662 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
664 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
665 standards set by other GNU utilities.
667 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
668 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
670 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
673 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
674 distributed with Wget.
676 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
678 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
680 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
682 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
684 ** Can do passive FTP.
688 ** Info documentation expanded.
690 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
692 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
696 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
698 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
699 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
701 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
703 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
705 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
708 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
710 ** --convert-links should work now.
714 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
718 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
720 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
722 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
724 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
725 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
726 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
727 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
728 most importantly, use.
730 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
731 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
733 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
734 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
735 wget http://user:password@hostname/
737 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
738 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
739 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
741 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
742 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
744 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
745 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
747 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
749 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
750 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
752 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
755 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
756 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
759 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
760 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
761 sysadmin to like you).
763 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
765 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
768 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
769 through a proxy server.
771 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
772 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
774 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
777 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
778 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
780 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
782 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
784 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
786 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
787 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
789 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
790 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
792 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
794 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
795 turn on mirroring options).
797 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
799 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
801 ** A host of bugfixes.
803 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
805 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
807 ** Added support for no_proxy
809 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
811 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
813 ** More natural command-line options
815 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
817 ** Added support for robots.txt
819 ** Fixed some minor bugs
821 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
823 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
825 ** REST supported in FTP
827 ** Proxy servers supported
829 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
830 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
831 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
833 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
835 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
837 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
839 ** autoconf supported
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