[svn] New option --retry-connrefused from Ahmod Dancy.

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 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
 
-Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
 \f
+* Changes in Wget 1.9.
+
+** The build process now requires Autoconf 2.5x.
+
+** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
+requests.  For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
+send a POST request with the specified contents.
+
+** IPv6 is experimentally supported.
+
+** The `--timeout' option now affects the connect timeout as well.
+Previously it only affected reading and writing data.
+
+** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
+recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
+The ETA is still based on the average speed, though.
+
+** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
+firewalls.  Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
+log on to the proxy as "username@host".
+
+** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
+even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
+considered a fatal error.
+\f
+* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
 
 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
@@ -45,6 +72,10 @@ to display the page.
 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
 
+** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
+base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
+relative.
+
 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
 
@@ -52,7 +83,7 @@ addresses when accessing the first one fails.
 non-standard port.
 
 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
-<http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>.
+<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
 
 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
 quoting.  Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is