[svn] Don't allow more than 20 successive redirections.

[wget] / NEWS

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@@ -13,7 +13,12 @@ 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'.
 
-** "Recursive retrieval" has been revamped:
+** 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
@@ -28,6 +33,17 @@ have been downloaded.
 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.
+
+** 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.
 
@@ -35,9 +51,11 @@ non-standard port.
 <http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/norobots-rfc.html>.
 
 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
-quoting bug.  Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F'
-is no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'.  Unsafe characters
+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.
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 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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