GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
-Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000 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 1.5.3+dev
+* Changes in Wget 1.9+.
+
+** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
+1.9, this version has no problems with dual-family systems. The new
+flags `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the
+use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively.
+
+** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
+default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
+which might not be what the user wants. The new option
+`--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
+be used to revert to the old behavior.
+
+** Many options that previously unconditionally set or unset various
+flags are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION'
+or `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off"
+have also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax
+for backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you
+can write `--no-glob'.
+
+Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' is useful because it
+allows the user to override non-default behavior specified via
+`.wgetrc'.
+
+** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
+save session cookies along with the permanent ones. This is useful on
+sites that require you to log in before you can access some pages.
+With this option, multiple Wget runs will be treated as a single
+browser session.
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.9.
+
+** 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 support is available, although it's still experimental.
+
+** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
+the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
+data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
+`--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
+respectively.
+
+** 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 projection is still based on the overall average.
+
+** 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.
+
+** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from
+caching DNS lookups.
+
+** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
+whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
+nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
+characters such as space. You can use the new option
+--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
+useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
+non-native partitions.
+
+** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
+users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
+declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
+Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
+
+** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
+as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
+
+** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
+values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
+
+** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
+periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
+expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
+\f
+* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\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.
+You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
+types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
+dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
+indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
+
+** 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
+downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
+before.
+
+*** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
+This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
+have been downloaded.
+
+*** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
+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://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
+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.
+\f
+* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.7.
+
+** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
+use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
+installed.
+
+** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
+server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
+and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
+
+** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
+Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
+many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
+stressing for the server and the network.
+
+** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
+servers.
+
+** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
+puts you in some directory other than '/'.
+
+** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
+example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
+expect.
+
+** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
+reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
+are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
+skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
+also more general.
+
+** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
+
+** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
+where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
+large sites (thousands of documents).
+
+** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
+documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
+1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
+distribution installed on your system.
+\f
+* Changes in Wget 1.6
** Administrative changes.
*** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
-Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer. Hrvoje still participates
-occasionally, and both are being helped by many other people.
+Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
+real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
+are being helped by many other people.
*** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
Take a look at:
- http://sunsite.dk/wget/ (#### Is this URL correct?)
+ http://sunsite.dk/wget/
*** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
-** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict wget to
-following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval. -G /
---ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the opposite -- all tags but the ones
-you specify will be followed.
+** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
+Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
+retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
+opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
default in the system wgetrc.
-** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes wget to
-download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML page properly
-(e.g. inlined images).
+** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
+Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
+page properly (e.g. inlined images).
-** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes wget to append
-".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
+** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
+to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
+"\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
-** Polish and Russian message translation files have been added.
+** A number of new translation files have been added.
** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
bound to multiple IP addresses.
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