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