stsc: -i URL improvements.

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 108d72177f1b69e7fcbac50685f770bb5f397344..6f88e19a93d4ed5d37a04c5b496dbae33bbf6bae 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -480,9 +480,9 @@ printed.
 @cindex input-file
 @item -i @var{file}
 @itemx --input-file=@var{file}
-Read @sc{url}s from @var{file}.  If @samp{-} is specified as
-@var{file}, @sc{url}s are read from the standard input.  (Use
-@samp{./-} to read from a file literally named @samp{-}.)
+Read @sc{url}s from a local or external @var{file}.  If @samp{-} is
+specified as @var{file}, @sc{url}s are read from the standard input.  
+(Use @samp{./-} to read from a file literally named @samp{-}.)
 
 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
@@ -497,6 +497,11 @@ relative links, which you can solve either by adding @code{<base
 href="@var{url}">} to the documents or by specifying
 @samp{--base=@var{url}} on the command line.
 
+If the @var{file} is an external one, the document will be automatically
+treated as @samp{html} if the Content-Type matches @samp{text/html}.
+Furthermore, the @var{file}'s location will be implicitly used as base
+href if none was specified.
+
 @cindex force html
 @item -F
 @itemx --force-html