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