1 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
3 Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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6 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
8 * Changes in Wget 1.5.3+dev
10 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
11 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
12 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
14 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict wget to
15 following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval. -G /
16 --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the opposite -- all tags but the ones
17 you specify will be followed.
19 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
20 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
21 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
22 default in the system wgetrc.
24 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes wget to
25 download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML page properly
26 (e.g. inlined images).
28 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes wget to append
29 ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
31 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
32 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
33 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
35 ** Polish and Russian message translation files have been added.
37 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
39 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
41 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
43 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
45 ** Wget speaks many languages!
47 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
48 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
49 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
51 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
53 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
55 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
57 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
59 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
60 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
62 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
65 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
66 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
68 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
71 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
72 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
75 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
77 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
78 standards set by other GNU utilities.
80 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
81 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
83 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
86 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
87 distributed with Wget.
89 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
91 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
93 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
95 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
97 ** Can do passive FTP.
101 ** Info documentation expanded.
103 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
105 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
109 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
111 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
112 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
114 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
116 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
118 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
121 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
123 ** --convert-links should work now.
127 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
131 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
133 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
135 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
137 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
138 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
139 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
140 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
141 most importantly, use.
143 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
144 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
146 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
147 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
148 wget http://user:password@hostname/
150 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
151 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
152 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
154 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
155 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
157 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
158 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
160 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
162 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
163 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
165 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
168 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
169 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
172 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
173 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
174 sysadmin to like you).
176 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
178 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
181 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
182 through a proxy server.
184 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
185 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
187 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
190 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
191 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
193 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
195 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
197 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
199 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
200 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
202 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
203 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
205 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
207 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
208 turn on mirroring options).
210 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
212 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
214 ** A host of bugfixes.
216 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
218 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
220 ** Added support for no_proxy
222 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
224 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
226 ** More natural command-line options
228 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
230 ** Added support for robots.txt
232 ** Fixed some minor bugs
234 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
236 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
238 ** REST supported in FTP
240 ** Proxy servers supported
242 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
243 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
244 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
246 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
248 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
250 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
252 ** autoconf supported
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