X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=blobdiff_plain;f=README;h=7e74454747c34502d85fdc5311f5e37b89ea1189;hp=2f1b3b4b2b7e8b95ead20ffb3f3155ba640337a4;hb=aec2fac89b051dbde2a2dbd2414d73fcce508ea9;hpb=f4d82ed3f62cd0dfe0ebe0ca0b562109f5de807b diff --git a/README b/README index 2f1b3b4b..7e744547 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,71 +1,73 @@ -*- text -*- GNU Wget -======== Home: http://sunsite.dk/wget/ - -GNU Wget is a free network utility to retrieve files from the World -Wide Web using HTTP and FTP, the two most widely used Internet -protocols. It works non-interactively, thus enabling work in the -background, after having logged off. - -The recursive retrieval of HTML pages, as well as FTP sites is -supported -- you can use Wget to make mirrors of archives and home -pages, or traverse the web like a WWW robot (Wget understands -/robots.txt). - -Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections, keeping -getting the document until it is fully retrieved. Re-getting files -from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that -support it. Matching of wildcards and recursive mirroring of -directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Both HTTP and FTP -retrievals can be time-stamped, thus Wget can see if the remote file -has changed since last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new -version if it has. - -Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load, speed -up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. If you are behind a -firewall that requires the use of a socks style gateway, you can get -the socks library and compile wget with support for socks. +======== + Current Web home: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/ + +GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from +the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as +retrieval through HTTP proxies. + +It can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote +web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original +site. This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading." +While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard +(/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in +downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing. + +Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a +hierarchy of directories and files. + +With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has +changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the +newer files. + +Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network +connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will +keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server +supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the +download from where it left off. + +If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style +gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support +for socks. Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for site settings. -Wget works under almost all modern Unix variants and, unlike many -other similar utilities, is written entirely in C, thus requiring no -additional software (like perl). As Wget uses the GNU Autoconf, it is -easily built on and ported to other Unix's. Installation procedure is -described in the INSTALL file. +Wget works under almost all Unix variants in use today and, unlike +many of its historical predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus +requiring no additional software, such as Perl. The external software +it does work with, such as OpenSSL, is optional. As Wget uses the GNU +Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to new Unix-like systems. +The installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file. -Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the -master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example, -Wget 1.6 is at: - - . +As with other GNU software, the latest version of Wget can be found at +the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. Wget +resides at . Please report bugs in Wget to . -Wget has a mailing list at . To subscribe, mail -to . Wget's home page is at -. - -Wget is free in all senses -- it is freely redistributable, and no -payment is required. If you still wish to donate money to the -developers or fund the development for a specific purpose, please send -mail to the development mailing list at . +See the file `MAILING-LIST' for information about Wget mailing lists. +Wget's home page is at . +If you would like to contribute code for Wget, please read +http://wget.addictivecode.org/PatchGuidelines. -MAINTAINERS: Dan Harkless - Hrvoje Niksic +MAINTAINER: Micah Cowan -Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. +Wget was originally written and mainained by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see +the file AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs +for a detailed listing of all contributions. -Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc. +Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 +2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by -the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, @@ -75,4 +77,16 @@ GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software -Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. +Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 +USA. + +Additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7 + +If you modify this program, or any covered work, by linking or +combining it with the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library (or a +modified version of that library), containing parts covered by the +terms of the OpenSSL or SSLeay licenses, the Free Software Foundation +grants you additional permission to convey the resulting work. +Corresponding Source for a non-source form of such a combination +shall include the source code for the parts of OpenSSL used as well +as that of the covered work.