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+Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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+* 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.
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+* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.8.
** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
-** "Recursive retrieval" has been revamped:
+** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
+`--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
+tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
+per second.
+
+** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
*** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
+*** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
+same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
+are now converted correctly.
+
+*** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
+retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
+to display the page.
+
+*** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
+`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.
+
** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
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 bug. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F'
-is no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
+quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
+no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
+
+** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
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* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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