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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
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 * Changes in Wget 1.14
41 ** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP
42 payload on 4xx or 5xx errors.
44 ** Add support for WARC files.
46 ** Fix a memory leak problem in the GNU TLS backend.
48 ** Autoreconf works again for distributed tarballs.
50 ** Print some diagnostic messages to stderr not to stdout.
52 ** Report stdout close errors.
54 ** Accept the --report-speed option.
56 ** Enable client certificates when GNU TLS is used.
58 ** Add support for TLS Server Name Indication.
60 ** Accept the arguments --accept-reject and --reject-regex.
62 ** The GNU TLS backend honors correctly the timeout value.
64 ** Add support for RFC 2617 Digest Access Authentication.
66 * Changes in Wget 1.13.4
68 ** Now --version and --help work again.
70 ** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc.
72 ** Now --timestamping and --continue work well together.
74 ** Return a network failure when FTP downloads fail and --timestamping
77 ** Fix a segfault on an incomplete STYLE tag.
79 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
83 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
86 ** Fix some portability issues.
88 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
90 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
92 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
94 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
96 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
98 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
100 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
101 but use directly GET.
103 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
104 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
106 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
108 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
110 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
111 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
112 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
113 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
115 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
118 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
121 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
123 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
125 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
128 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
129 on a network error and -nc is used.
131 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
134 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
136 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
137 by the same host on different pages.
139 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
140 it is the output destination file.
142 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
143 a DNS name when it is resolved.
145 * Changes in Wget 1.12
147 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
149 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
150 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
151 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
152 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
154 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
155 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
156 style tags and attributes.
157 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
158 --convert-links is specified.
159 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
160 when --convert-links is specified.
162 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
163 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
165 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
166 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
167 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
168 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
169 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
171 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
172 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
174 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
175 support alternative default names for index.html.
177 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
178 support password prompts at the console.
180 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
183 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
184 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
187 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
188 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
189 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
191 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
192 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
194 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
195 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
196 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
197 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
199 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
201 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
202 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
204 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
205 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
206 locally with content.
208 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
209 to a pointer-to-time_t.
211 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
213 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
215 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
217 ** Translation updates
219 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
221 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
222 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
224 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
225 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
226 meaningful, is still an error.)
228 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
229 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
231 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
232 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
233 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
234 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
236 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
237 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
238 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
241 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
243 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
244 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
246 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
247 related assertion failure was fixed).
249 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
250 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
252 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
253 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
254 useful for some limited cases.
256 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
257 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
258 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
260 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
261 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
263 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
265 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
266 rather than the first one it got.
268 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
269 header in recursive fetches.
271 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
272 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
273 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
274 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
275 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
276 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
277 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
279 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
280 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
282 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
283 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
284 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
285 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
286 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
289 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
290 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
291 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
293 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
294 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
295 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
297 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
298 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
299 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
300 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
301 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
303 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
304 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
305 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
306 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
307 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
309 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
311 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
312 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
313 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
315 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
316 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
317 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
318 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
321 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
322 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
323 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
324 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
326 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
327 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
328 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
329 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
330 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
331 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
332 when downloading to stdout.
336 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
337 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
338 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
339 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
340 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
341 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
342 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
343 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
345 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
346 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
348 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
349 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
350 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
351 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
352 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
353 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
354 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
356 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
357 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
358 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
361 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
362 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
363 are no longer supported.
365 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
366 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
367 revert to the old behavior.
369 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
370 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
371 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
372 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
373 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
375 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
376 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
377 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
379 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
380 not arrive from the network.
382 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
383 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
384 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
385 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
386 be used to revert to the old behavior.
388 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
389 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
391 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
392 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
393 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
394 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
395 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
398 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
399 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
400 specified via `.wgetrc'.
402 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
403 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
404 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
405 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
406 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
409 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
410 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
411 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
412 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
413 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
414 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
415 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
416 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
418 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
420 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
422 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
424 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
425 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
426 send a POST request with the specified contents.
428 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
430 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
431 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
432 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
433 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
436 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
437 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
438 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
440 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
441 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
442 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
444 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
445 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
446 considered a fatal error.
448 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
451 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
452 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
453 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
454 characters such as space. You can use the new option
455 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
456 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
457 non-native partitions.
459 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
460 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
461 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
462 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
464 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
465 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
467 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
468 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
470 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
471 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
472 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
474 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
476 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
478 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
480 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
481 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
482 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
483 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
484 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
486 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
487 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
488 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
491 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
493 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
494 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
495 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
498 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
499 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
500 have been downloaded.
502 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
503 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
504 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
506 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
507 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
508 are now converted correctly.
510 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
511 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
514 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
515 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
516 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
518 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
519 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
522 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
523 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
525 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
528 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
529 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
531 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
532 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
533 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
534 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
536 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
538 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
540 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
542 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
543 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
546 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
547 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
548 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
550 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
551 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
552 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
553 stressing for the server and the network.
555 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
558 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
559 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
561 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
562 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
565 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
566 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
567 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
568 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
571 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
573 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
574 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
575 large sites (thousands of documents).
577 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
578 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
579 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
580 distribution installed on your system.
582 * Changes in Wget 1.6
584 ** Administrative changes.
586 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
587 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
588 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
589 are being helped by many other people.
591 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
594 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
596 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
597 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
598 the web page for downloading instructions.
600 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
601 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
602 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
604 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
605 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
606 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
607 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
609 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
610 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
611 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
612 default in the system wgetrc.
614 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
615 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
616 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
618 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
619 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
620 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
622 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
623 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
624 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
626 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
628 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
629 bound to multiple IP addresses.
631 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
633 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
635 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
637 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
639 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
641 ** Wget speaks many languages!
643 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
644 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
645 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
647 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
649 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
651 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
653 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
655 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
656 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
658 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
661 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
662 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
664 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
667 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
668 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
671 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
673 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
674 standards set by other GNU utilities.
676 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
677 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
679 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
682 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
683 distributed with Wget.
685 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
687 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
689 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
691 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
693 ** Can do passive FTP.
697 ** Info documentation expanded.
699 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
701 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
705 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
707 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
708 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
710 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
712 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
714 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
717 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
719 ** --convert-links should work now.
723 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
727 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
729 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
731 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
733 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
734 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
735 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
736 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
737 most importantly, use.
739 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
740 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
742 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
743 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
744 wget http://user:password@hostname/
746 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
747 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
748 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
750 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
751 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
753 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
754 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
756 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
758 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
759 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
761 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
764 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
765 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
768 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
769 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
770 sysadmin to like you).
772 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
774 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
777 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
778 through a proxy server.
780 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
781 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
783 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
786 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
787 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
789 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
791 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
793 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
795 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
796 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
798 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
799 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
801 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
803 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
804 turn on mirroring options).
806 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
808 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
810 ** A host of bugfixes.
812 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
814 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
816 ** Added support for no_proxy
818 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
820 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
822 ** More natural command-line options
824 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
826 ** Added support for robots.txt
828 ** Fixed some minor bugs
830 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
832 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
834 ** REST supported in FTP
836 ** Proxy servers supported
838 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
839 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
840 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
842 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
844 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
846 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
848 ** autoconf supported
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