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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.
+
+** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command switches to set
+username and password for FTP, and the --user and --password command switches
+to set username and password for both FTP and HTTP. The --http-passwd and
+--proxy-passwd command switches have been renamed to --http-password and
+--proxy-password respectively, and the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd
+.wgetrc commands to http_password and proxy_password respectively. The
+login and passwd .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
+
+** 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
flags `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the
-use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively.
+use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Unfortunately the IPv6 support
+still does not work on Windows.
+
+** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works. Previous
+versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for SSL URLs. Wget
+1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this purpose.
+
+** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
+supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
+by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
+release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
+
+** 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 download
+retries from servers without support for partial downloads work 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
+save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
+permanent ones. Many sites track important information, such as
+whether the user has authenticated, using session cookies. Using this
+option option allows multiple Wget runs to 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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* Changes in Wget 1.9.
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