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@@ -36,12 +36,17 @@ be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
 file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. For the time
 being, Content-Disposition is not used by default, to avoid the extra
 round-trips incurred (must specify "-e contentdisposition=yes"); this
-may change in a future version.
-
-** The GnuTLS library is now also supported for https downloads.
-This is still work-in-progress.  OpenSSL is still used by default; use
---with-ssl=gnutls to build with GnuTLS.  OpenSSL is still required for
-NTLM authorization to work, but this should eventually change.
+may change in a future version. NOTE: This functionality is currently
+considered "experimental", and may not be fully functional.
+
+** The GnuTLS library is now also experimentally supported for https
+downloads.  This is still work-in-progress.  OpenSSL is still used by
+default; use --with-ssl=gnutls to build with GnuTLS.  OpenSSL is still
+required for NTLM authorization to work, but this should eventually
+change. NOTE: Certificate verification is _not_ currently supported:
+this means that you can currently only use GnuTLS to encrypt
+connections, but _not_ to verify that a host is who it claims to be. Use
+of OpenSSL is suggested until this missing feature is implemented.
 
 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
 matching files, directories, and wildcards.  This affects the -X, -I,