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