From: Micah Cowan Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 18:31:55 +0000 (-0700) Subject: Note missing functionality from current GnuTLS support. X-Git-Tag: v1.13~526 X-Git-Url: http://sjero.net/git/?p=wget;a=commitdiff_plain;h=e88e599ea9c2475b8ba257e60d3f1df75535bcbe Note missing functionality from current GnuTLS support. --- diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 1832ba82..22fe74ba 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2007-10-03 Micah Cowan + + * NEWS: Note missing functionality from GnuTLS support. + 2007-09-25 Micah Cowan * configure.in: Remove unnecessary heuristic to generate exeext diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3393be2c..ae96c0ea 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -38,10 +38,14 @@ being, Content-Disposition is not used by default, to avoid the extra round-trips incurred (must specify "-e contentdisposition=yes"); this may change in a future version. -** The GnuTLS library is now also supported for https downloads. -This is still work-in-progress. OpenSSL is still used by default; use ---with-ssl=gnutls to build with GnuTLS. OpenSSL is still required for -NTLM authorization to work, but this should eventually change. +** The GnuTLS library is now also experimentally supported for https +downloads. This is still work-in-progress. OpenSSL is still used by +default; use --with-ssl=gnutls to build with GnuTLS. OpenSSL is still +required for NTLM authorization to work, but this should eventually +change. NOTE: Certificate verification is _not_ currently supported: +this means that you can currently only use GnuTLS to encrypt +connections, but _not_ to verify that a host is who it claims to be. Use +of OpenSSL is suggested until this missing feature is implemented. ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,