X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=2d9af4f8272b49a0603c764dfa2a61f2f86762cd;hp=777381e85d888cae903fe0c8c62791f5a8530bf2;hb=e911bc29434b7da90446d2ca5304106724d05680;hpb=7ab7f93f8dd1711c0f82519cc61d31455c3c84aa diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 777381e8..2d9af4f8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,187 @@ GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. -Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end for copying conditions. Please send GNU Wget bug reports to . +* Changes in Wget 1.11. + +** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It +was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running +broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify +`--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them +by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp. + +* Changes in Wget 1.10. + +** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large +files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the +majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows. + +** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in +1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags +`--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of +IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been +tested on Windows. + +** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now +supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used +by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this +release; you can only authenticate to the target web site. + +** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download +has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead, +with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte +where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to +the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download +retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even +when downloading to stdout. + +** SSL/TLS changes: + +*** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate +against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA +certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the +OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle +yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted +from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html), +and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate' +command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command. + +*** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches +the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server. + +*** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they +unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with +previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or +otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate +verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match +requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you +can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks. + +*** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works. +Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https +URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this +purpose. + +*** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the +first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options +are no longer supported. + +** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use +`--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to +revert to the old behavior. + +** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated +headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar" +http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify +"foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of +`--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests. + +** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are +detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is +still occasionally used, sometimes by accident. + +** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does +not arrive from the network. + +** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by +default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664", +which might not be what the user wants. The new option +`--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can +be used to revert to the old behavior. + +** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use +the protocol name as a directory component of local file names. + +** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags +are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or +`--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have +also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for +backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can +write `--no-glob'. + +Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around +is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior +specified via `.wgetrc'. + +** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to +save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the +permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important +information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session +cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single +browser session. + +** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command +switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and +--password command switches to set username and password for both FTP +and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have +been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and +the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to +http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd +.wgetrc commands have been deprecated. + +* `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows. + +* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. + +* Changes in Wget 1.9. + +** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP +requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will +send a POST request with the specified contents. + +** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental. + +** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing +the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing +data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using +`--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout', +respectively. + +** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data +recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download. +The ETA projection is still based on the overall average. + +** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK +firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically +log on to the proxy as "username@host". + +** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads +even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise +considered a fatal error. + +** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from +caching DNS lookups. + +** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on +whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for +nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent +characters such as space. You can use the new option +--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be +useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to +non-native partitions. + +** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what +users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML +declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->". +Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior. + +** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such +as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg". + +** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept +values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off". + +** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting +periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as +expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'. + +* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. + +* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. + * Changes in Wget 1.8. ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default. @@ -45,6 +222,10 @@ to display the page. `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files, and all the files that they need to be displayed properly. +** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a +base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be +relative. + ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other addresses when accessing the first one fails. @@ -52,7 +233,7 @@ addresses when accessing the first one fails. non-standard port. ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in -. +. ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is @@ -376,7 +557,7 @@ geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Copyright information: -Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that