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+Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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-* Changes in Wget 1.9+.
+* Changes in Wget 1.10.
+
+** Downloading files greater than 2GB, also known as "large files",
+now works on systems that support them. This includes most modern
+Unix variants, as well as Windows.
** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
1.9, this version has no problems with dual-family systems. The new
** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works.
+** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
+has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
+with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
+where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
+the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and "start
+over" retries work correctly even when downloading to stdout.
+
+** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
+`--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
+revert to the old behavior.
+
+** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
+headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
+http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
+"foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
+`--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
+
+** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
+detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
+still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
+
** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
-not arrive.
+not arrive from the network.
** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
`--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
be used to revert to the old behavior.
+** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
+the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
+
** 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"
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'.
+Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
+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.
+
+* `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
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* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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