Wgetrc Commands
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- The complete set of commands is listed below, the letter after `='
-denoting the value the command takes. It is `on/off' for `on' or `off'
-(which can also be `1' or `0'), STRING for any non-empty string or N
-for a positive integer. For example, you may specify `use_proxy = off'
-to disable use of proxy servers by default. You may use `inf' for
-infinite values, where appropriate.
-
- Most of the commands have their equivalent command-line option
-(*Note Invoking::), except some more obscure or rarely used ones.
+ The complete set of commands is listed below. Legal values are
+listed after the `='. Simple Boolean values can be set or unset using
+`on' and `off' or `1' and `0'. A fancier kind of Boolean allowed in
+some cases is the "lockable" Boolean, which may be set to `on', `off',
+`always', or `never'. If an option is set to `always' or `never', that
+value will be locked in for the duration of the wget invocation -
+commandline options will not override.
+
+ Some commands take pseudo-arbitrary values. ADDRESS values can be
+hostnames or dotted-quad IP addresses. N can be any positive integer,
+or `inf' for infinity, where appropriate. STRING values can be any
+non-empty string.
+
+ Most of these commands have commandline equivalents (*Note
+Invoking::), though some of the more obscure or rarely used ones do not.
accept/reject = STRING
Same as `-A'/`-R' (*Note Types of Files::).
Consider relative URLs in URL input files forced to be interpreted
as HTML as being relative to STRING - the same as `-B'.
+bind_address = ADDRESS
+ Bind to ADDRESS, like the `--bind-address' option.
+
cache = on/off
When set to off, disallow server-caching. See the `-C' option.
Download all ancillary documents necessary for a single HTML page
to display properly - the same as `-p'.
-passive_ftp = on/off
- Set passive FTP - the same as `--passive-ftp'.
+passive_ftp = on/off/always/never
+ Set passive FTP - the same as `--passive-ftp'. Some scripts and
+ `.pm' (Perl module) files download files using `wget
+ --passive-ftp'. If your firewall does not allow this, you can set
+ `passive_ftp = never' to override the commandline.
passwd = STRING
Set your FTP password to PASSWORD. Without this setting, the
proxy_passwd = STRING
Set proxy authentication password to STRING, like `--proxy-passwd'.
+referer = STRING
+ Set HTTP `Referer:' header just like `--referer'. (Note it was
+ the folks who wrote the HTTP spec who got the spelling of
+ "referrer" wrong.)
+
quiet = on/off
Quiet mode - the same as `-q'.