Documentation updates for --default-page.

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index 50ee459e95c33fc3709566167d6ad7b04c9dc159..9cb5db9982cf66152352da79c7fd6ec7c8591751 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 @c %**start of header
 @setfilename wget.info
 @include version.texi
-@set UPDATED Jun 2008
 @settitle GNU Wget @value{VERSION} Manual
 @c Disable the monstrous rectangles beside overfull hbox-es.
 @finalout
@@ -497,6 +496,11 @@ 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
@@ -1071,6 +1075,12 @@ current directory).
 @section HTTP Options
 
 @table @samp
+@cindex default page name
+@cindex index.html
+@item --default-page=@var{name}
+Use @var{name} as the default file name when it isn't known (i.e., for
+URLs that end in a slash), instead of @file{index.html}.
+
 @cindex .html extension
 @item -E
 @itemx --html-extension