Merging ABOUT-NLS modification in to reinstate ABOUT-NLS.

[wget] / doc / wget.texi

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@@ -1359,6 +1359,18 @@ This option is useful for some file-downloading CGI programs that use
 @code{Content-Disposition} headers to describe what the name of a
 downloaded file should be.
 
+@cindex authentication
+@item --auth-no-challenge
+
+If this option is given, Wget will send Basic HTTP authentication
+information (plaintext username and password) for all requests, just
+like Wget 1.10.2 and prior did by default.
+
+Use of this option is not recommended, and is intended only to support
+some few obscure servers, which never send HTTP authentication
+challenges, but accept unsolicited auth info, say, in addition to
+form-based authentication.
+
 @end table
 
 @node HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options
@@ -2190,6 +2202,14 @@ followed.  Only the archive you are interested in will be downloaded.
 Essentially, @samp{--no-parent} is similar to
 @samp{-I/~luzer/my-archive}, only it handles redirections in a more
 intelligent fashion.
+
+@strong{Note} that, for HTTP (and HTTPS), the trailing slash is very
+important to @samp{--no-parent}. HTTP has no concept of a ``directory''---Wget
+relies on you to indicate what's a directory and what isn't. In
+@samp{http://foo/bar/}, Wget will consider @samp{bar} to be a
+directory, while in @samp{http://foo/bar} (no trailing slash),
+@samp{bar} will be considered a filename (so @samp{--no-parent} would be
+meaningless, as its parent is @samp{/}).
 @end table
 
 @node Relative Links