[svn] Document new implementation of continuing partial downloads.

[wget] / NEWS

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@@ -12,8 +12,27 @@ 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.
+
+** 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 `--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",
@@ -21,6 +40,9 @@ which might not be what the user wants.  The new option
 `--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"