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