[svn] New option --protocol-directories.

[wget] / NEWS

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@@ -22,12 +22,10 @@ http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
 
 ** 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.)
+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",
@@ -35,6 +33,9 @@ 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"