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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 ** Support Perfect-Forward Secrecy in --secure-protocol.
32 ** Fix a problem with some IRI links that are not followed when contained in a
35 ** Support some FTP servers that return an empty list with "LIST -a".
37 ** Specify Host with the HTTP CONNECT method.
39 ** Use the correct HTTP method on a redirection.
41 * Changes in Wget 1.14
43 ** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP
44 payload on 4xx or 5xx errors.
46 ** Add support for WARC files.
48 ** Fix a memory leak problem in the GNU TLS backend.
50 ** Autoreconf works again for distributed tarballs.
52 ** Print some diagnostic messages to stderr not to stdout.
54 ** Report stdout close errors.
56 ** Accept the --report-speed option.
58 ** Enable client certificates when GNU TLS is used.
60 ** Add support for TLS Server Name Indication.
62 ** Accept the arguments --accept-reject and --reject-regex.
64 ** The GNU TLS backend honors correctly the timeout value.
66 ** Add support for RFC 2617 Digest Access Authentication.
68 * Changes in Wget 1.13.4
70 ** Now --version and --help work again.
72 ** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc.
74 ** Now --timestamping and --continue work well together.
76 ** Return a network failure when FTP downloads fail and --timestamping
79 ** Fix a segfault on an incomplete STYLE tag.
81 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
85 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
88 ** Fix some portability issues.
90 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
92 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
94 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
96 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
98 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
100 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
102 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
103 but use directly GET.
105 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
106 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
108 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
110 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
112 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
113 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
114 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
115 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
117 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
120 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
123 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
125 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
127 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
130 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
131 on a network error and -nc is used.
133 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
136 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
138 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
139 by the same host on different pages.
141 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
142 it is the output destination file.
144 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
145 a DNS name when it is resolved.
147 * Changes in Wget 1.12
149 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
151 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
152 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
153 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
154 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
156 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
157 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
158 style tags and attributes.
159 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
160 --convert-links is specified.
161 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
162 when --convert-links is specified.
164 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
165 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
167 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
168 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
169 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
170 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
171 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
173 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
174 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
176 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
177 support alternative default names for index.html.
179 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
180 support password prompts at the console.
182 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
185 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
186 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
189 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
190 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
191 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
193 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
194 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
196 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
197 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
198 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
199 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
201 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
203 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
204 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
206 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
207 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
208 locally with content.
210 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
211 to a pointer-to-time_t.
213 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
215 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
217 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
219 ** Translation updates
221 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
223 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
224 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
226 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
227 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
228 meaningful, is still an error.)
230 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
231 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
233 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
234 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
235 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
236 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
238 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
239 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
240 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
243 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
245 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
246 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
248 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
249 related assertion failure was fixed).
251 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
252 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
254 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
255 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
256 useful for some limited cases.
258 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
259 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
260 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
262 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
263 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
265 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
267 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
268 rather than the first one it got.
270 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
271 header in recursive fetches.
273 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
274 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
275 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
276 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
277 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
278 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
279 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
281 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
282 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
284 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
285 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
286 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
287 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
288 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
291 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
292 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
293 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
295 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
296 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
297 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
299 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
300 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
301 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
302 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
303 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
305 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
306 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
307 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
308 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
309 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
311 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
313 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
314 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
315 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
317 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
318 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
319 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
320 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
323 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
324 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
325 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
326 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
328 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
329 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
330 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
331 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
332 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
333 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
334 when downloading to stdout.
338 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
339 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
340 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
341 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
342 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
343 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
344 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
345 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
347 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
348 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
350 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
351 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
352 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
353 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
354 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
355 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
356 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
358 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
359 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
360 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
363 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
364 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
365 are no longer supported.
367 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
368 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
369 revert to the old behavior.
371 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
372 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
373 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
374 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
375 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
377 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
378 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
379 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
381 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
382 not arrive from the network.
384 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
385 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
386 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
387 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
388 be used to revert to the old behavior.
390 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
391 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
393 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
394 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
395 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
396 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
397 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
400 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
401 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
402 specified via `.wgetrc'.
404 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
405 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
406 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
407 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
408 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
411 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
412 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
413 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
414 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
415 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
416 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
417 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
418 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
420 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
422 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
424 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
426 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
427 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
428 send a POST request with the specified contents.
430 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
432 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
433 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
434 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
435 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
438 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
439 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
440 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
442 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
443 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
444 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
446 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
447 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
448 considered a fatal error.
450 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
453 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
454 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
455 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
456 characters such as space. You can use the new option
457 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
458 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
459 non-native partitions.
461 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
462 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
463 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
464 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
466 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
467 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
469 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
470 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
472 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
473 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
474 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
476 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
478 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
480 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
482 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
483 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
484 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
485 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
486 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
488 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
489 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
490 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
493 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
495 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
496 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
497 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
500 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
501 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
502 have been downloaded.
504 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
505 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
506 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
508 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
509 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
510 are now converted correctly.
512 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
513 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
516 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
517 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
518 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
520 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
521 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
524 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
525 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
527 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
530 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
531 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
533 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
534 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
535 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
536 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
538 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
540 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
542 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
544 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
545 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
548 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
549 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
550 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
552 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
553 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
554 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
555 stressing for the server and the network.
557 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
560 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
561 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
563 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
564 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
567 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
568 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
569 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
570 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
573 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
575 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
576 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
577 large sites (thousands of documents).
579 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
580 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
581 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
582 distribution installed on your system.
584 * Changes in Wget 1.6
586 ** Administrative changes.
588 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
589 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
590 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
591 are being helped by many other people.
593 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
596 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
598 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
599 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
600 the web page for downloading instructions.
602 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
603 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
604 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
606 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
607 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
608 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
609 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
611 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
612 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
613 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
614 default in the system wgetrc.
616 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
617 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
618 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
620 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
621 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
622 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
624 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
625 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
626 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
628 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
630 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
631 bound to multiple IP addresses.
633 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
635 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
637 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
639 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
641 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
643 ** Wget speaks many languages!
645 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
646 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
647 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
649 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
651 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
653 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
655 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
657 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
658 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
660 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
663 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
664 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
666 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
669 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
670 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
673 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
675 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
676 standards set by other GNU utilities.
678 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
679 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
681 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
684 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
685 distributed with Wget.
687 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
689 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
691 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
693 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
695 ** Can do passive FTP.
699 ** Info documentation expanded.
701 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
703 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
707 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
709 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
710 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
712 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
714 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
716 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
719 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
721 ** --convert-links should work now.
725 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
729 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
731 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
733 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
735 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
736 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
737 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
738 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
739 most importantly, use.
741 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
742 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
744 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
745 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
746 wget http://user:password@hostname/
748 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
749 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
750 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
752 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
753 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
755 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
756 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
758 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
760 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
761 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
763 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
766 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
767 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
770 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
771 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
772 sysadmin to like you).
774 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
776 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
779 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
780 through a proxy server.
782 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
783 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
785 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
788 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
789 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
791 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
793 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
795 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
797 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
798 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
800 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
801 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
803 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
805 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
806 turn on mirroring options).
808 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
810 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
812 ** A host of bugfixes.
814 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
816 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
818 ** Added support for no_proxy
820 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
822 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
824 ** More natural command-line options
826 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
828 ** Added support for robots.txt
830 ** Fixed some minor bugs
832 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
834 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
836 ** REST supported in FTP
838 ** Proxy servers supported
840 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
841 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
842 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
844 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
846 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
848 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
850 ** autoconf supported
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