[svn] Mention that HTTP/0.9 now works.

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@@ -12,6 +12,23 @@ Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
 flags `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the
 use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively.
 
+** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works.
+
+** 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 encountered.  (Popular browsers still support it,
+so clueless authors of dynamic pages who forget to emit headers don't
+notice anything wrong.)
+
+** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
+not arrive.
+
 ** 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
@@ -35,6 +52,8 @@ 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
+* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
+\f
 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
 
 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP