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