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 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
38 bound to multiple IP addresses.
40 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
42 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
44 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
46 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
48 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
50 ** Wget speaks many languages!
52 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
53 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
54 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
56 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
58 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
60 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
62 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
64 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
65 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
67 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
70 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
71 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
73 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
76 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
77 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
80 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
82 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
83 standards set by other GNU utilities.
85 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
86 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
88 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
91 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
92 distributed with Wget.
94 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
96 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
98 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
100 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
102 ** Can do passive FTP.
106 ** Info documentation expanded.
108 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
110 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
114 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
116 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
117 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
119 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
121 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
123 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
126 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
128 ** --convert-links should work now.
132 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
136 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
138 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
140 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
142 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
143 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
144 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
145 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
146 most importantly, use.
148 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
149 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
151 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
152 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
153 wget http://user:password@hostname/
155 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
156 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
157 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
159 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
160 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
162 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
163 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
165 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
167 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
168 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
170 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
173 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
174 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
177 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
178 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
179 sysadmin to like you).
181 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
183 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
186 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
187 through a proxy server.
189 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
190 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
192 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
195 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
196 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
198 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
200 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
202 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
204 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
205 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
207 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
208 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
210 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
212 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
213 turn on mirroring options).
215 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
217 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
219 ** A host of bugfixes.
221 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
223 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
225 ** Added support for no_proxy
227 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
229 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
231 ** More natural command-line options
233 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
235 ** Added support for robots.txt
237 ** Fixed some minor bugs
239 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
241 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
243 ** REST supported in FTP
245 ** Proxy servers supported
247 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
248 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
249 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
251 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
253 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
255 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
257 ** autoconf supported
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