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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 * Changes in Wget 1.12
23 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
25 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
26 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
27 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
28 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
30 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
31 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
32 style tags and attributes.
33 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
34 --convert-links is specified.
35 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
36 when --convert-links is specified.
38 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
39 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
41 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
42 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
43 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
44 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
45 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
47 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
48 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
50 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
51 support alternative default names for index.html.
53 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
54 support password prompts at the console.
56 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
59 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
60 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
63 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
64 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
65 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
67 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
68 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
70 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
71 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
72 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
73 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
75 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
77 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
78 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
80 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
81 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
84 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
85 to a pointer-to-time_t.
87 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
89 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
91 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
93 ** Translation updates
95 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
97 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
98 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
100 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
101 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
102 meaningful, is still an error.)
104 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
105 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
107 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
108 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
109 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
110 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
112 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
113 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
114 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
117 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
119 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
120 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
122 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
123 related assertion failure was fixed).
125 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
126 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
128 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
129 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
130 useful for some limited cases.
132 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
133 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
134 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
136 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
137 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
139 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
141 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
142 rather than the first one it got.
144 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
145 header in recursive fetches.
147 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
148 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
149 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
150 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
151 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
152 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
153 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
155 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
156 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
158 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
159 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
160 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
161 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
162 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
165 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
166 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
167 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
169 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
170 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
171 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
173 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
174 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
175 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
176 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
177 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
179 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
180 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
181 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
182 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
183 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
185 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
187 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
188 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
189 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
191 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
192 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
193 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
194 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
197 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
198 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
199 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
200 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
202 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
203 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
204 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
205 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
206 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
207 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
208 when downloading to stdout.
212 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
213 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
214 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
215 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
216 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
217 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
218 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
219 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
221 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
222 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
224 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
225 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
226 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
227 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
228 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
229 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
230 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
232 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
233 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
234 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
237 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
238 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
239 are no longer supported.
241 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
242 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
243 revert to the old behavior.
245 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
246 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
247 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
248 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
249 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
251 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
252 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
253 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
255 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
256 not arrive from the network.
258 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
259 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
260 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
261 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
262 be used to revert to the old behavior.
264 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
265 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
267 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
268 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
269 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
270 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
271 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
274 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
275 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
276 specified via `.wgetrc'.
278 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
279 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
280 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
281 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
282 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
285 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
286 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
287 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
288 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
289 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
290 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
291 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
292 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
294 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
296 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
298 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
300 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
301 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
302 send a POST request with the specified contents.
304 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
306 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
307 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
308 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
309 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
312 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
313 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
314 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
316 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
317 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
318 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
320 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
321 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
322 considered a fatal error.
324 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
327 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
328 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
329 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
330 characters such as space. You can use the new option
331 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
332 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
333 non-native partitions.
335 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
336 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
337 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
338 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
340 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
341 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
343 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
344 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
346 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
347 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
348 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
350 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
352 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
354 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
356 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
357 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
358 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
359 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
360 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
362 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
363 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
364 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
367 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
369 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
370 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
371 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
374 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
375 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
376 have been downloaded.
378 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
379 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
380 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
382 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
383 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
384 are now converted correctly.
386 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
387 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
390 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
391 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
392 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
394 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
395 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
398 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
399 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
401 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
404 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
405 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
407 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
408 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
409 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
410 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
412 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
414 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
416 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
418 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
419 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
422 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
423 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
424 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
426 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
427 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
428 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
429 stressing for the server and the network.
431 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
434 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
435 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
437 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
438 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
441 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
442 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
443 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
444 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
447 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
449 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
450 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
451 large sites (thousands of documents).
453 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
454 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
455 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
456 distribution installed on your system.
458 * Changes in Wget 1.6
460 ** Administrative changes.
462 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
463 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
464 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
465 are being helped by many other people.
467 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
470 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
472 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
473 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
474 the web page for downloading instructions.
476 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
477 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
478 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
480 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
481 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
482 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
483 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
485 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
486 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
487 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
488 default in the system wgetrc.
490 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
491 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
492 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
494 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
495 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
496 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
498 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
499 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
500 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
502 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
504 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
505 bound to multiple IP addresses.
507 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
509 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
511 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
513 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
515 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
517 ** Wget speaks many languages!
519 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
520 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
521 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
523 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
525 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
527 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
529 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
531 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
532 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
534 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
537 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
538 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
540 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
543 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
544 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
547 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
549 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
550 standards set by other GNU utilities.
552 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
553 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
555 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
558 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
559 distributed with Wget.
561 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
563 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
565 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
567 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
569 ** Can do passive FTP.
573 ** Info documentation expanded.
575 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
577 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
581 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
583 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
584 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
586 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
588 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
590 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
593 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
595 ** --convert-links should work now.
599 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
603 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
605 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
607 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
609 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
610 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
611 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
612 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
613 most importantly, use.
615 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
616 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
618 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
619 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
620 wget http://user:password@hostname/
622 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
623 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
624 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
626 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
627 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
629 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
630 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
632 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
634 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
635 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
637 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
640 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
641 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
644 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
645 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
646 sysadmin to like you).
648 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
650 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
653 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
654 through a proxy server.
656 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
657 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
659 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
662 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
663 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
665 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
667 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
669 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
671 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
672 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
674 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
675 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
677 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
679 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
680 turn on mirroring options).
682 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
684 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
686 ** A host of bugfixes.
688 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
690 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
692 ** Added support for no_proxy
694 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
696 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
698 ** More natural command-line options
700 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
702 ** Added support for robots.txt
704 ** Fixed some minor bugs
706 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
708 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
710 ** REST supported in FTP
712 ** Proxy servers supported
714 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
715 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
716 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
718 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
720 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
722 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
724 ** autoconf supported
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