From: hniksic <devnull@localhost>
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:36:29 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [svn] Advertise NTLM support.  Explain why SSL over proxy now works in
X-Git-Tag: v1.13~1170
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[svn] Advertise NTLM support.  Explain why SSL over proxy now works in
some more detail.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0ac7831f..41911529 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -17,7 +17,14 @@ flags `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the
 use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively.  Unfortunately the IPv6 support
 still does not work on Windows.
 
-** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works.
+** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works.  Previous
+versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for SSL URLs.  Wget
+1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this purpose.
+
+** 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,