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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
13 ** Fix some portability issues.
15 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
17 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
19 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
21 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
23 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
25 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
27 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
30 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
31 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
33 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
35 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
37 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
38 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252.
40 * Changes in Wget 1.12
42 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
44 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
45 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
46 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
47 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
49 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
50 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
51 style tags and attributes.
52 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
53 --convert-links is specified.
54 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
55 when --convert-links is specified.
57 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
58 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
60 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
61 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
62 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
63 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
64 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
66 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
67 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
69 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
70 support alternative default names for index.html.
72 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
73 support password prompts at the console.
75 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
78 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
79 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
82 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
83 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
84 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
86 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
87 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
89 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
90 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
91 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
92 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
94 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
96 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
97 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
99 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
100 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
101 locally with content.
103 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
104 to a pointer-to-time_t.
106 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
108 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
110 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
112 ** Translation updates
114 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
116 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
117 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
119 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
120 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
121 meaningful, is still an error.)
123 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
124 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
126 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
127 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
128 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
129 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
131 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
132 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
133 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
136 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
138 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
139 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
141 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
142 related assertion failure was fixed).
144 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
145 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
147 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
148 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
149 useful for some limited cases.
151 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
152 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
153 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
155 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
156 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
158 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
160 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
161 rather than the first one it got.
163 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
164 header in recursive fetches.
166 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
167 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
168 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
169 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
170 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
171 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
172 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
174 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
175 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
177 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
178 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
179 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
180 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
181 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
184 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
185 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
186 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
188 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
189 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
190 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
192 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
193 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
194 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
195 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
196 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
198 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
199 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
200 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
201 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
202 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
204 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
206 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
207 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
208 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
210 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
211 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
212 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
213 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
216 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
217 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
218 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
219 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
221 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
222 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
223 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
224 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
225 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
226 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
227 when downloading to stdout.
231 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
232 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
233 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
234 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
235 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
236 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
237 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
238 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
240 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
241 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
243 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
244 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
245 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
246 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
247 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
248 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
249 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
251 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
252 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
253 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
256 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
257 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
258 are no longer supported.
260 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
261 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
262 revert to the old behavior.
264 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
265 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
266 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
267 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
268 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
270 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
271 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
272 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
274 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
275 not arrive from the network.
277 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
278 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
279 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
280 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
281 be used to revert to the old behavior.
283 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
284 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
286 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
287 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
288 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
289 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
290 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
293 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
294 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
295 specified via `.wgetrc'.
297 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
298 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
299 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
300 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
301 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
304 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
305 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
306 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
307 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
308 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
309 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
310 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
311 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
313 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
315 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
317 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
319 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
320 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
321 send a POST request with the specified contents.
323 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
325 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
326 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
327 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
328 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
331 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
332 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
333 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
335 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
336 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
337 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
339 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
340 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
341 considered a fatal error.
343 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
346 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
347 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
348 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
349 characters such as space. You can use the new option
350 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
351 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
352 non-native partitions.
354 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
355 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
356 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
357 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
359 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
360 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
362 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
363 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
365 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
366 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
367 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
369 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
371 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
373 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
375 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
376 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
377 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
378 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
379 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
381 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
382 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
383 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
386 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
388 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
389 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
390 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
393 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
394 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
395 have been downloaded.
397 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
398 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
399 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
401 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
402 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
403 are now converted correctly.
405 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
406 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
409 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
410 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
411 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
413 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
414 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
417 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
418 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
420 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
423 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
424 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
426 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
427 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
428 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
429 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
431 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
433 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
435 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
437 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
438 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
441 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
442 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
443 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
445 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
446 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
447 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
448 stressing for the server and the network.
450 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
453 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
454 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
456 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
457 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
460 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
461 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
462 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
463 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
466 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
468 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
469 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
470 large sites (thousands of documents).
472 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
473 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
474 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
475 distribution installed on your system.
477 * Changes in Wget 1.6
479 ** Administrative changes.
481 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
482 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
483 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
484 are being helped by many other people.
486 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
489 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
491 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
492 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
493 the web page for downloading instructions.
495 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
496 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
497 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
499 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
500 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
501 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
502 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
504 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
505 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
506 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
507 default in the system wgetrc.
509 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
510 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
511 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
513 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
514 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
515 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
517 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
518 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
519 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
521 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
523 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
524 bound to multiple IP addresses.
526 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
528 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
530 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
532 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
534 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
536 ** Wget speaks many languages!
538 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
539 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
540 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
542 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
544 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
546 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
548 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
550 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
551 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
553 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
556 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
557 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
559 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
562 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
563 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
566 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
568 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
569 standards set by other GNU utilities.
571 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
572 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
574 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
577 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
578 distributed with Wget.
580 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
582 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
584 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
586 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
588 ** Can do passive FTP.
592 ** Info documentation expanded.
594 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
596 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
600 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
602 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
603 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
605 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
607 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
609 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
612 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
614 ** --convert-links should work now.
618 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
622 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
624 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
626 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
628 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
629 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
630 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
631 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
632 most importantly, use.
634 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
635 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
637 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
638 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
639 wget http://user:password@hostname/
641 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
642 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
643 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
645 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
646 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
648 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
649 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
651 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
653 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
654 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
656 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
659 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
660 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
663 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
664 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
665 sysadmin to like you).
667 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
669 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
672 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
673 through a proxy server.
675 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
676 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
678 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
681 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
682 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
684 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
686 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
688 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
690 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
691 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
693 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
694 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
696 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
698 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
699 turn on mirroring options).
701 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
703 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
705 ** A host of bugfixes.
707 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
709 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
711 ** Added support for no_proxy
713 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
715 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
717 ** More natural command-line options
719 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
721 ** Added support for robots.txt
723 ** Fixed some minor bugs
725 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
727 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
729 ** REST supported in FTP
731 ** Proxy servers supported
733 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
734 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
735 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
737 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
739 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
741 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
743 ** autoconf supported
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