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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 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
35 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
37 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
38 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
39 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
40 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
42 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
45 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
48 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
50 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
52 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
55 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
56 on a network error and -nc is used.
58 * Changes in Wget 1.12
60 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
62 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
63 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
64 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
65 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
67 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
68 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
69 style tags and attributes.
70 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
71 --convert-links is specified.
72 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
73 when --convert-links is specified.
75 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
76 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
78 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
79 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
80 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
81 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
82 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
84 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
85 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
87 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
88 support alternative default names for index.html.
90 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
91 support password prompts at the console.
93 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
96 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
97 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
100 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
101 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
102 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
104 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
105 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
107 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
108 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
109 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
110 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
112 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
114 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
115 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
117 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
118 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
119 locally with content.
121 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
122 to a pointer-to-time_t.
124 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
126 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
128 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
130 ** Translation updates
132 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
134 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
135 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
137 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
138 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
139 meaningful, is still an error.)
141 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
142 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
144 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
145 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
146 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
147 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
149 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
150 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
151 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
154 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
156 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
157 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
159 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
160 related assertion failure was fixed).
162 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
163 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
165 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
166 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
167 useful for some limited cases.
169 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
170 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
171 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
173 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
174 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
176 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
178 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
179 rather than the first one it got.
181 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
182 header in recursive fetches.
184 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
185 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
186 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
187 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
188 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
189 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
190 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
192 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
193 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
195 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
196 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
197 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
198 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
199 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
202 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
203 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
204 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
206 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
207 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
208 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
210 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
211 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
212 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
213 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
214 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
216 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
217 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
218 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
219 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
220 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
222 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
224 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
225 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
226 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
228 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
229 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
230 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
231 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
234 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
235 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
236 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
237 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
239 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
240 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
241 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
242 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
243 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
244 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
245 when downloading to stdout.
249 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
250 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
251 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
252 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
253 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
254 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
255 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
256 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
258 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
259 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
261 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
262 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
263 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
264 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
265 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
266 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
267 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
269 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
270 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
271 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
274 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
275 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
276 are no longer supported.
278 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
279 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
280 revert to the old behavior.
282 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
283 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
284 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
285 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
286 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
288 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
289 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
290 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
292 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
293 not arrive from the network.
295 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
296 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
297 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
298 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
299 be used to revert to the old behavior.
301 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
302 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
304 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
305 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
306 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
307 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
308 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
311 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
312 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
313 specified via `.wgetrc'.
315 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
316 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
317 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
318 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
319 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
322 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
323 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
324 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
325 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
326 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
327 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
328 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
329 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
331 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
333 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
335 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
337 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
338 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
339 send a POST request with the specified contents.
341 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
343 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
344 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
345 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
346 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
349 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
350 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
351 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
353 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
354 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
355 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
357 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
358 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
359 considered a fatal error.
361 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
364 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
365 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
366 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
367 characters such as space. You can use the new option
368 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
369 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
370 non-native partitions.
372 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
373 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
374 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
375 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
377 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
378 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
380 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
381 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
383 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
384 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
385 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
387 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
389 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
391 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
393 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
394 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
395 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
396 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
397 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
399 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
400 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
401 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
404 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
406 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
407 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
408 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
411 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
412 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
413 have been downloaded.
415 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
416 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
417 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
419 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
420 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
421 are now converted correctly.
423 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
424 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
427 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
428 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
429 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
431 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
432 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
435 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
436 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
438 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
441 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
442 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
444 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
445 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
446 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
447 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
449 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
451 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
453 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
455 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
456 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
459 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
460 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
461 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
463 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
464 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
465 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
466 stressing for the server and the network.
468 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
471 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
472 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
474 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
475 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
478 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
479 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
480 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
481 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
484 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
486 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
487 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
488 large sites (thousands of documents).
490 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
491 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
492 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
493 distribution installed on your system.
495 * Changes in Wget 1.6
497 ** Administrative changes.
499 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
500 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
501 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
502 are being helped by many other people.
504 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
507 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
509 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
510 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
511 the web page for downloading instructions.
513 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
514 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
515 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
517 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
518 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
519 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
520 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
522 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
523 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
524 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
525 default in the system wgetrc.
527 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
528 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
529 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
531 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
532 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
533 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
535 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
536 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
537 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
539 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
541 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
542 bound to multiple IP addresses.
544 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
546 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
548 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
550 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
552 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
554 ** Wget speaks many languages!
556 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
557 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
558 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
560 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
562 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
564 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
566 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
568 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
569 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
571 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
574 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
575 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
577 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
580 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
581 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
584 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
586 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
587 standards set by other GNU utilities.
589 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
590 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
592 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
595 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
596 distributed with Wget.
598 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
600 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
602 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
604 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
606 ** Can do passive FTP.
610 ** Info documentation expanded.
612 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
614 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
618 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
620 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
621 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
623 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
625 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
627 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
630 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
632 ** --convert-links should work now.
636 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
640 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
642 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
644 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
646 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
647 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
648 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
649 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
650 most importantly, use.
652 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
653 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
655 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
656 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
657 wget http://user:password@hostname/
659 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
660 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
661 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
663 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
664 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
666 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
667 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
669 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
671 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
672 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
674 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
677 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
678 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
681 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
682 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
683 sysadmin to like you).
685 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
687 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
690 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
691 through a proxy server.
693 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
694 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
696 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
699 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
700 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
702 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
704 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
706 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
708 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
709 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
711 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
712 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
714 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
716 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
717 turn on mirroring options).
719 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
721 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
723 ** A host of bugfixes.
725 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
727 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
729 ** Added support for no_proxy
731 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
733 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
735 ** More natural command-line options
737 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
739 ** Added support for robots.txt
741 ** Fixed some minor bugs
743 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
745 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
747 ** REST supported in FTP
749 ** Proxy servers supported
751 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
752 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
753 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
755 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
757 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
759 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
761 ** autoconf supported
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