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8 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
10 ** Now --version and --help work again.
12 ** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc.
14 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
18 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
21 ** Fix some portability issues.
23 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
25 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
27 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
29 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
31 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
33 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
35 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
38 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
39 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
41 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
43 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
45 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
46 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
47 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
48 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
50 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
53 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
56 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
58 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
60 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
63 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
64 on a network error and -nc is used.
66 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
69 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
71 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
72 by the same host on different pages.
74 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
75 it is the output destination file.
77 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
78 a DNS name when it is resolved.
80 * Changes in Wget 1.12
82 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
84 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
85 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
86 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
87 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
89 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
90 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
91 style tags and attributes.
92 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
93 --convert-links is specified.
94 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
95 when --convert-links is specified.
97 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
98 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
100 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
101 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
102 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
103 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
104 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
106 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
107 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
109 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
110 support alternative default names for index.html.
112 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
113 support password prompts at the console.
115 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
118 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
119 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
122 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
123 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
124 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
126 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
127 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
129 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
130 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
131 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
132 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
134 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
136 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
137 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
139 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
140 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
141 locally with content.
143 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
144 to a pointer-to-time_t.
146 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
148 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
150 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
152 ** Translation updates
154 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
156 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
157 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
159 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
160 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
161 meaningful, is still an error.)
163 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
164 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
166 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
167 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
168 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
169 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
171 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
172 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
173 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
176 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
178 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
179 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
181 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
182 related assertion failure was fixed).
184 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
185 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
187 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
188 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
189 useful for some limited cases.
191 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
192 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
193 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
195 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
196 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
198 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
200 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
201 rather than the first one it got.
203 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
204 header in recursive fetches.
206 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
207 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
208 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
209 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
210 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
211 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
212 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
214 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
215 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
217 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
218 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
219 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
220 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
221 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
224 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
225 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
226 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
228 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
229 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
230 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
232 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
233 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
234 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
235 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
236 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
238 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
239 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
240 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
241 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
242 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
244 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
246 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
247 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
248 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
250 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
251 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
252 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
253 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
256 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
257 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
258 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
259 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
261 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
262 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
263 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
264 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
265 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
266 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
267 when downloading to stdout.
271 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
272 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
273 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
274 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
275 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
276 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
277 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
278 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
280 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
281 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
283 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
284 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
285 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
286 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
287 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
288 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
289 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
291 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
292 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
293 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
296 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
297 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
298 are no longer supported.
300 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
301 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
302 revert to the old behavior.
304 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
305 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
306 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
307 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
308 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
310 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
311 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
312 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
314 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
315 not arrive from the network.
317 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
318 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
319 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
320 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
321 be used to revert to the old behavior.
323 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
324 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
326 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
327 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
328 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
329 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
330 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
333 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
334 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
335 specified via `.wgetrc'.
337 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
338 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
339 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
340 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
341 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
344 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
345 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
346 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
347 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
348 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
349 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
350 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
351 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
353 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
355 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
357 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
359 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
360 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
361 send a POST request with the specified contents.
363 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
365 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
366 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
367 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
368 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
371 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
372 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
373 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
375 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
376 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
377 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
379 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
380 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
381 considered a fatal error.
383 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
386 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
387 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
388 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
389 characters such as space. You can use the new option
390 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
391 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
392 non-native partitions.
394 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
395 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
396 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
397 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
399 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
400 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
402 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
403 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
405 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
406 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
407 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
409 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
411 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
413 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
415 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
416 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
417 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
418 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
419 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
421 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
422 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
423 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
426 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
428 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
429 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
430 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
433 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
434 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
435 have been downloaded.
437 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
438 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
439 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
441 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
442 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
443 are now converted correctly.
445 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
446 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
449 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
450 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
451 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
453 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
454 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
457 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
458 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
460 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
463 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
464 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
466 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
467 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
468 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
469 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
471 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
473 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
475 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
477 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
478 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
481 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
482 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
483 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
485 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
486 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
487 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
488 stressing for the server and the network.
490 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
493 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
494 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
496 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
497 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
500 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
501 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
502 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
503 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
506 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
508 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
509 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
510 large sites (thousands of documents).
512 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
513 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
514 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
515 distribution installed on your system.
517 * Changes in Wget 1.6
519 ** Administrative changes.
521 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
522 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
523 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
524 are being helped by many other people.
526 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
529 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
531 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
532 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
533 the web page for downloading instructions.
535 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
536 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
537 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
539 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
540 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
541 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
542 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
544 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
545 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
546 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
547 default in the system wgetrc.
549 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
550 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
551 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
553 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
554 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
555 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
557 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
558 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
559 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
561 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
563 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
564 bound to multiple IP addresses.
566 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
568 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
570 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
572 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
574 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
576 ** Wget speaks many languages!
578 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
579 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
580 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
582 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
584 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
586 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
588 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
590 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
591 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
593 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
596 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
597 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
599 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
602 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
603 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
606 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
608 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
609 standards set by other GNU utilities.
611 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
612 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
614 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
617 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
618 distributed with Wget.
620 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
622 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
624 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
626 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
628 ** Can do passive FTP.
632 ** Info documentation expanded.
634 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
636 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
640 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
642 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
643 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
645 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
647 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
649 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
652 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
654 ** --convert-links should work now.
658 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
662 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
664 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
666 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
668 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
669 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
670 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
671 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
672 most importantly, use.
674 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
675 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
677 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
678 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
679 wget http://user:password@hostname/
681 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
682 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
683 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
685 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
686 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
688 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
689 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
691 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
693 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
694 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
696 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
699 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
700 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
703 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
704 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
705 sysadmin to like you).
707 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
709 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
712 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
713 through a proxy server.
715 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
716 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
718 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
721 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
722 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
724 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
726 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
728 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
730 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
731 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
733 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
734 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
736 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
738 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
739 turn on mirroring options).
741 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
743 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
745 ** A host of bugfixes.
747 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
749 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
751 ** Added support for no_proxy
753 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
755 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
757 ** More natural command-line options
759 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
761 ** Added support for robots.txt
763 ** Fixed some minor bugs
765 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
767 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
769 ** REST supported in FTP
771 ** Proxy servers supported
773 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
774 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
775 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
777 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
779 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
781 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
783 ** autoconf supported
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