Fix #22242: Option to allow auths before challenged.

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 0e30d9c7ac54597e579c30bc24e459615b5adeb0..008e1809e438a711024b4dad0fd9eae65b204821 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 @c %**start of header
 @setfilename wget.info
 @include version.texi
-@set UPDATED Oct 2007
+@set UPDATED Jan 2008
 @settitle GNU Wget @value{VERSION} Manual
 @c Disable the monstrous rectangles beside overfull hbox-es.
 @finalout
@@ -26,16 +26,19 @@
 * Wget: (wget).         The non-interactive network downloader.
 @end direntry
 
-@ifnottex
+@copying
 This file documents the GNU Wget utility for downloading network
 data.
 
 @c man begin COPYRIGHT
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996--2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002,
+2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
+@iftex
 Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
 this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
 are preserved on all copies.
+@end iftex
 
 @ignore
 Permission is granted to process this file through TeX and print the
@@ -50,7 +53,7 @@ Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A
 copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
 Documentation License''.
 @c man end
-@end ifnottex
+@end copying
 
 @titlepage
 @title GNU Wget @value{VERSION}
@@ -74,24 +77,17 @@ Info entry for @file{wget}.
 
 @page
 @vskip 0pt plus 1filll
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996--2007, Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
-Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
-under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
-any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
-Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.  A
-copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free
-Documentation License''.
+@insertcopying
 @end titlepage
 
+@contents
+
 @ifnottex
 @node Top
 @top Wget @value{VERSION}
 
-This manual documents version @value{VERSION} of GNU Wget, the freely
-available utility for network downloads.
-
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996--2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+@insertcopying
+@end ifnottex
 
 @menu
 * Overview::            Features of Wget.
@@ -106,7 +102,6 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 1996--2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 * Copying this manual:: You may give out copies of Wget and of this manual.
 * Concept Index::       Topics covered by this manual.
 @end menu
-@end ifnottex
 
 @node Overview
 @chapter Overview
@@ -172,11 +167,8 @@ download from where it left off.
 
 @item
 Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed
-up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.  However, if you are
-behind a firewall that requires that you use a socks style gateway,
-you can get the socks library and build Wget with support for socks.
-Wget uses the passive @sc{ftp} downloading by default, active @sc{ftp}
-being an option.
+up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.  Wget uses the passive
+@sc{ftp} downloading by default, active @sc{ftp} being an option.
 
 @item
 Wget supports IP version 6, the next generation of IP.  IPv6 is
@@ -1367,6 +1359,18 @@ This option is useful for some file-downloading CGI programs that use
 @code{Content-Disposition} headers to describe what the name of a
 downloaded file should be.
 
+@cindex authentication
+@item --auth-no-challenge
+
+If this option is given, Wget will send Basic HTTP authentication
+information (plaintext username and password) for all requests, just
+like Wget 1.10.2 and prior did by default.
+
+Use of this option is not recommended, and is intended only to support
+some few obscure servers, which never send HTTP authentication
+challenges, but accept unsolicited auth info, say, in addition to
+form-based authentication.
+
 @end table
 
 @node HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options