@c %**start of header
@setfilename wget.info
@include version.texi
-@set UPDATED May 2003
+@set UPDATED Jan 2005
@settitle GNU Wget @value{VERSION} Manual
@c Disable the monstrous rectangles beside overfull hbox-es.
@finalout
data.
@c man begin COPYRIGHT
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 Free
-Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice
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-Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005,
+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
This manual documents version @value{VERSION} of GNU Wget, the freely
available utility for network downloads.
-Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003 Free Software
-Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005
+Free Software Foundation, Inc.
@menu
* Overview:: Features of Wget.
@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
-also supports the passive @sc{ftp} downloading as an option.
+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.
@sp 1
@item
@itemx --output-document=@var{file}
The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all will
be concatenated together and written to @var{file}. If @var{file}
-already exists, it will be overwritten. If the @var{file} is @samp{-},
-the documents will be written to standard output.
+already exists, it will be overwritten. If the @var{file} is @samp{-},
+the documents will be written to standard output (disabling @samp{-k}).
+
+Note that a combination with @samp{-k} is only well-defined for downloading
+a single document.
@cindex clobbering, file
@cindex downloading multiple times
servers (and the ones emulating Unix @code{ls} output).
@cindex passive ftp
-@item --passive-ftp
-Use the @dfn{passive} @sc{ftp} retrieval scheme, in which the client
-initiates the data connection. This is sometimes required for @sc{ftp}
-to work behind firewalls.
+@item --no-passive-ftp
+Disable the use of the @dfn{passive} FTP transfer mode. Passive FTP
+mandates that the client connect to the server to establish the data
+connection rather than the other way around.
+
+If the machine is connected to the Internet directly, both passive and
+active FTP should work equally well. Behind most firewall and NAT
+configurations passive FTP has a better chance of working. However,
+in some rare firewall configurations, active FTP actually works when
+passive FTP doesn't. If you suspect this to be the case, use this
+option, or set @code{passive_ftp=off} in your init file.
@cindex symbolic links, retrieving
@item --retr-symlinks
display properly---the same as @samp{-p}.
@item passive_ftp = on/off/always/never
-Set passive @sc{ftp}---the same as @samp{--passive-ftp}. Some scripts
-and @samp{.pm} (Perl module) files download files using @samp{wget
---passive-ftp}. If your firewall does not allow this, you can set
-@samp{passive_ftp = never} to override the command-line.
+Change setting of passive @sc{ftp}, equivalent to the
+@samp{--passive-ftp} option. Some scripts and @samp{.pm} (Perl
+module) files download files using @samp{wget --passive-ftp}. If your
+firewall does not allow this, you can set @samp{passive_ftp = never}
+to override the command-line.
@item passwd = @var{string}
Set your @sc{ftp} password to @var{password}. Without this setting, the
@ifnottex
Bojan Zdrnja,
@end ifnottex
-Kristijan Zimmer.
+Kristijan Zimmer,
+YAMAZAKI Makoto,
+Leonid Petrov,
+Hans-Andreas Engel,
+Ulf Harnhammar,
+Jan Minar,
+Simone Piunno.
Apologies to all who I accidentally left out, and many thanks to all the
subscribers of the Wget mailing list.
@smallexample
@var{one line to give the program's name and an idea of what it does.}
-Copyright (C) 19@var{yy} @var{name of author}
+Copyright (C) 20@var{yy} @var{name of author}
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
when it starts in an interactive mode:
@smallexample
-Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 19@var{yy} @var{name of author}
+Gnomovision version 69, Copyright (C) 20@var{yy} @var{name of author}
Gnomovision comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details
type `show w'. This is free software, and you are welcome
to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `show c'