@section Download Options
@table @samp
+@cindex bind() address
+@cindex client IP address
+@cindex IP address, client
+@item --bind-address=@var{ADDRESS}
+When making client TCP/IP connections, @code{bind()} to @var{ADDRESS} on
+the local machine. @var{ADDRESS} may be specified as a hostname or IP
+address. This option can be useful if your machine is bound to multiple
+IPs.
+
@cindex retries
@cindex tries
@cindex number of retries
Microsoft @code{Internet Explorer}. This option allows you to change
the @code{User-Agent} line issued by Wget. Use of this option is
discouraged, unless you really know what you are doing.
-
-@strong{NOTE} that Netscape Communications Corp. has claimed that false
-transmissions of @samp{Mozilla} as the @code{User-Agent} are a copyright
-infringement, which will be prosecuted. @strong{DO NOT} misrepresent
-Wget as Mozilla.
@end table
@node FTP Options, Recursive Retrieval Options, HTTP Options, Invoking
@item --delete-after
This option tells Wget to delete every single file it downloads,
@emph{after} having done so. It is useful for pre-fetching popular
-pages through proxy, e.g.:
+pages through a proxy, e.g.:
@example
wget -r -nd --delete-after http://whatever.com/~popular/page/
@end example
-The @samp{-r} option is to retrieve recursively, and @samp{-nd} not to
-create directories.
+The @samp{-r} option is to retrieve recursively, and @samp{-nd} to not
+create directories.
+
+Note that @samp{--delete-after} deletes files on the local machine. It
+does not issue the @samp{DELE} command to remote FTP sites, for
+instance. Also note that when @samp{--delete-after} is specified,
+@samp{--convert-links} is ignored, so @samp{.orig} files are simply not
+created in the first place.
@cindex conversion of links
@cindex link conversion
likes to use a few options in addition to @samp{-p}:
@example
-wget -H -k -K -nh -p http://@var{site}/@var{document}
+wget -E -H -k -K -nh -p http://@var{site}/@var{document}
@end example
To finish off this topic, it's worth knowing that wget's idea of an
locked in for the duration of the wget invocation -- commandline options
will not override.
-Some commands take pseudo-arbitrary values. @var{string} values can be
-any non-empty string. @var{n} can be any positive integer, or
-@samp{inf} for infinity, where appropriate.
+Some commands take pseudo-arbitrary values. @var{address} values can be
+hostnames or dotted-quad IP addresses. @var{n} can be any positive
+integer, or @samp{inf} for infinity, where appropriate. @var{string}
+values can be any non-empty string.
Most of these commands have commandline equivalents (@xref{Invoking}),
though some of the more obscure or rarely used ones do not.
interpreted as @sc{html} as being relative to @var{string} -- the same
as @samp{-B}.
+@item bind_address = @var{address}
+Bind to @var{address}, like the @samp{--bind-address} option.
+
@item cache = on/off
When set to off, disallow server-caching. See the @samp{-C} option.
@cindex contributors
@iftex
-GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nik@v{s}i@'{c} @email{hniksic@@iskon.hr}.
+GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nik@v{s}i@'{c} @email{hniksic@@arsdigita.com}.
@end iftex
@ifinfo
-GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic @email{hniksic@@iskon.hr}.
+GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic @email{hniksic@@arsdigita.com}.
@end ifinfo
However, its development could never have gone as far as it has, were it
not for the help of many people, either with bug reports, feature