[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, 2002 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>.
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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.
@@ -15,6 +21,14 @@ 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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