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- GNU Wget README
-
-GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World
-Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet
-protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the
-background, after having logged off.
-
-The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is
-supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home
-pages, or traverse the web like a WWW robot (Wget understands
-/robots.txt).
-
-Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping
-getting the document until it is fully retrieved. Re-getting files
-from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that
-support it. Matching of wildcards and recursive mirroring of
-directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Both HTTP and FTP
-retrievals can be time-stamped, thus Wget can see if the remote file
-has changed since last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new
-version if it has.
-
-Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed
-up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. If you are behind a
-firewall that requires the use of a socks style gateway, you can get
-the socks library and compile wget with support for socks.
+GNU Wget
+========
+ Current Web home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
+
+GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
+the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
+retrieval through HTTP proxies.
+
+It can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote
+web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original
+site. This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading."
+While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
+(/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in
+downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.
+
+Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a
+hierarchy of directories and files.
+
+With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has
+changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the
+newer files.
+
+Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
+connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will
+keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server
+supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the
+download from where it left off.
+
+If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style
+gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support
+for socks.
Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line
options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to
install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for
site settings.
-Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many
-other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no
-additional software (like perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is
-easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is
-described in the INSTALL file.
+Wget works under almost all Unix variants in use today and, unlike
+many of its historical predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus
+requiring no additional software, such as Perl. The external software
+it does work with, such as OpenSSL, is optional. As Wget uses the GNU
+Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to new Unix-like systems.
+The installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file.
-Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the
-master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example,
-Wget 1.5.3 is at:
-
- <URL:ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.5.3.tar.gz>.
+As with other GNU software, the latest version of Wget can be found at
+the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. Wget
+resides at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/>.
Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
-Wget has a own mailing list at <wget@sunsite.auc.dk>. To subscribe,
-mail to <wget-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk>.
-
-Wget is free in all senses -- it is freely redistributable, and no
-payment is required. If you still wish to donate money to the
-developers or fund the development, please mail your offer to the
-development mailing list at <wget@sunsite.auc.dk>.
+See the file `MAILING-LIST' for information about Wget mailing lists.
+Wget's home page is temporarily at <http://wget.sunsite.dk/>. It is
+being migrated to <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be
+its permanent home.
-MAINTAINERS: Dan Harkless <dan-wget@dilvish.speed.net>
- Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@arsdigita.com>
+MAINTAINER: Mauro Tortonesi <mauro@ferrara.linux.it>
-Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic.
+Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see the file
+AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs for a
+detailed listing of all contributions.
-Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
-Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
+USA.
+
+In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation
+gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the
+OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
+that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
+the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
+in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you
+modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
+file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
+so, delete this exception statement from your version.
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