From 009d2ebcc446e9c9e3c252ef72a89473dc83e4ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hniksic Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:36:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Advertise NTLM support. Explain why SSL over proxy now works in some more detail. --- NEWS | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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, -- 2.39.2