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-Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+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.
-** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works.
+** 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 "start
-over" retries work correctly even when downloading to stdout.
+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"
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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