@samp{--no-} prefix. This might seem superfluous---if the default for
an affirmative option is to not do something, then why provide a way
to explicitly turn it off? But the startup file may in fact change
-the default. For instance, using @code{follow_ftp = off} in
-@file{.wgetrc} makes Wget @emph{not} follow FTP links by default, and
+the default. For instance, using @code{follow_ftp = on} in
+@file{.wgetrc} makes Wget @emph{follow} FTP links by default, and
using @samp{--no-follow-ftp} is the only way to restore the factory
default from the command line.
If this function is used, no @sc{url}s need be present on the command
line. If there are @sc{url}s both on the command line and in an input
file, those on the command lines will be the first ones to be
-retrieved. The @var{file} need not be an @sc{html} document (but no
-harm if it is)---it is enough if the @sc{url}s are just listed
-sequentially.
+retrieved. If @samp{--force-html} is not specified, then @var{file}
+should consist of a series of URLs, one per line.
However, if you specify @samp{--force-html}, the document will be
regarded as @samp{html}. In that case you may have problems with
@cindex base for relative links in input file
@item -B @var{URL}
@itemx --base=@var{URL}
-Prepends @var{URL} to relative links read from the file specified with
-the @samp{-i} option.
+Resolves relative links using @var{URL} as the point of reference,
+when reading links from an HTML file specified via the
+@samp{-i}/@samp{--input-file} option (together with
+@samp{--force-html}, or when the input file was fetched remotely from
+a server describing it as @sc{html}). This is equivalent to the
+presence of a @code{BASE} tag in the @sc{html} input file, with
+@var{URL} as the value for the @code{href} attribute.
+
+For instance, if you specify @samp{http://foo/bar/a.html} for
+@var{URL}, and Wget reads @samp{../baz/b.html} from the input file, it
+would be resolved to @samp{http://foo/baz/b.html}.
@end table
@node Download Options, Directory Options, Logging and Input File Options, Invoking
cases, the local file will be @dfn{clobbered}, or overwritten, upon
repeated download. In other cases it will be preserved.
-When running Wget without @samp{-N}, @samp{-nc}, @samp{-r}, or @samp{p},
-downloading the same file in the same directory will result in the
-original copy of @var{file} being preserved and the second copy being
-named @samp{@var{file}.1}. If that file is downloaded yet again, the
-third copy will be named @samp{@var{file}.2}, and so on. When
-@samp{-nc} is specified, this behavior is suppressed, and Wget will
-refuse to download newer copies of @samp{@var{file}}. Therefore,
-``@code{no-clobber}'' is actually a misnomer in this mode---it's not
-clobbering that's prevented (as the numeric suffixes were already
-preventing clobbering), but rather the multiple version saving that's
-prevented.
-
-When running Wget with @samp{-r} or @samp{-p}, but without @samp{-N}
-or @samp{-nc}, re-downloading a file will result in the new copy
-simply overwriting the old. Adding @samp{-nc} will prevent this
-behavior, instead causing the original version to be preserved and any
-newer copies on the server to be ignored.
+When running Wget without @samp{-N}, @samp{-nc}, @samp{-r}, or
+@samp{-p}, downloading the same file in the same directory will result
+in the original copy of @var{file} being preserved and the second copy
+being named @samp{@var{file}.1}. If that file is downloaded yet
+again, the third copy will be named @samp{@var{file}.2}, and so on.
+(This is also the behavior with @samp{-nd}, even if @samp{-r} or
+@samp{-p} are in effect.) When @samp{-nc} is specified, this behavior
+is suppressed, and Wget will refuse to download newer copies of
+@samp{@var{file}}. Therefore, ``@code{no-clobber}'' is actually a
+misnomer in this mode---it's not clobbering that's prevented (as the
+numeric suffixes were already preventing clobbering), but rather the
+multiple version saving that's prevented.
+
+When running Wget with @samp{-r} or @samp{-p}, but without @samp{-N},
+@samp{-nd}, or @samp{-nc}, re-downloading a file will result in the
+new copy simply overwriting the old. Adding @samp{-nc} will prevent
+this behavior, instead causing the original version to be preserved
+and any newer copies on the server to be ignored.
When running Wget with @samp{-N}, with or without @samp{-r} or
@samp{-p}, the decision as to whether or not to download a newer copy
@cindex idn support
@item --iri
-Turn on internationalized URI (IRI) support. Use @samp{--iri=no} to
+Turn on internationalized URI (IRI) support. Use @samp{--no-iri} to
turn it off. IRI support is activated by default.
You can set the default state of IRI support using @code{iri} command in
given file, then waiting 2 seconds after the second failure on that
file, up to the maximum number of @var{seconds} you specify. Therefore,
a value of 10 will actually make Wget wait up to (1 + 2 + ... + 10) = 55
-seconds per file.
+seconds per file.
-Note that this option is turned on by default in the global
-@file{wgetrc} file.
+By default, Wget will assume a value of 10 seconds.
@cindex wait, random
@cindex random wait
@c #### Document me!
@c
@item base = @var{string}
-Consider relative @sc{url}s in @sc{url} input files forced to be
-interpreted as @sc{html} as being relative to @var{string}---the same as
-@samp{--base=@var{string}}.
+Consider relative @sc{url}s in input files (specified via the
+@samp{input} command or the @samp{--input-file}/@samp{-i} option,
+together with @samp{force_html} or @samp{--force-html})
+as being relative to @var{string}---the same as @samp{--base=@var{string}}.
@item bind_address = @var{address}
Bind to @var{address}, like the @samp{--bind-address=@var{address}}.
@item
Ted Mielczarek---donated support for CSS.
+@item
+Saint Xavier---Support for IRIs (RFC 3987).
+
@item
People who provided donations for development---including Brian Gough.
@end itemize
Alexander Kourakos,
Martin Kraemer,
Sami Krank,
+Jay Krell,
@tex
$\Sigma\acute{\iota}\mu o\varsigma\;
\Xi\varepsilon\nu\iota\tau\acute{\epsilon}\lambda\lambda\eta\varsigma$
Matthew J.@: Mellon,
Jordan Mendelson,
Ted Mielczarek,
+Robert Millan,
Lin Zhe Min,
Jan Minar,
Tim Mooney,
Douglas E.@: Wegscheid,
Ralf Wildenhues,
Joshua David Williams,
+Benjamin Wolsey,
+Saint Xavier,
YAMAZAKI Makoto,
Jasmin Zainul,
@iftex
@ifnottex
Bojan Zdrnja,
@end ifnottex
-Kristijan Zimmer.
+Kristijan Zimmer,
+Xin Zou.
Apologies to all who I accidentally left out, and many thanks to all the
subscribers of the Wget mailing list.
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