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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
11 ** Default progress bar output changed
13 ** Introduce --show-progress to force display the progress bar
15 ** Introduce --no-config.
17 ** Introduce --start-pos to allow starting downloads from a specified position.
19 * Changes in Wget 1.15
21 ** Add support for --method.
23 ** Add support for file names longer than MAX_FILE.
25 ** Support FTP listing for the FTP Server on Windows Server 2008 R2.
27 ** Fix a regression when -c and --content-disposition are used together.
29 ** Support shorthand URLs in an input file.
31 ** Fix -c with servers that don't specify a content-length.
33 ** Add support for MD5-SESS
35 ** Do not fail on non fatal GNU TLS alerts during handshake.
37 ** Add support for --https-only. When used wget will follow only
38 HTTPS links in recursive mode.
40 ** Support Perfect-Forward Secrecy in --secure-protocol.
42 ** Fix a problem with some IRI links that are not followed when contained in a
45 ** Support some FTP servers that return an empty list with "LIST -a".
47 ** Specify Host with the HTTP CONNECT method.
49 ** Use the correct HTTP method on a redirection.
51 * Changes in Wget 1.14
53 ** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP
54 payload on 4xx or 5xx errors.
56 ** Add support for WARC files.
58 ** Fix a memory leak problem in the GNU TLS backend.
60 ** Autoreconf works again for distributed tarballs.
62 ** Print some diagnostic messages to stderr not to stdout.
64 ** Report stdout close errors.
66 ** Accept the --report-speed option.
68 ** Enable client certificates when GNU TLS is used.
70 ** Add support for TLS Server Name Indication.
72 ** Accept the arguments --accept-reject and --reject-regex.
74 ** The GNU TLS backend honors correctly the timeout value.
76 ** Add support for RFC 2617 Digest Access Authentication.
78 * Changes in Wget 1.13.4
80 ** Now --version and --help work again.
82 ** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc.
84 ** Now --timestamping and --continue work well together.
86 ** Return a network failure when FTP downloads fail and --timestamping
89 ** Fix a segfault on an incomplete STYLE tag.
91 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
95 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
98 ** Fix some portability issues.
100 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
102 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
104 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
106 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
108 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
110 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
112 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
113 but use directly GET.
115 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
116 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
118 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
120 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
122 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
123 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
124 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
125 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
127 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
130 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
133 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
135 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
137 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
140 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
141 on a network error and -nc is used.
143 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
146 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
148 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
149 by the same host on different pages.
151 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
152 it is the output destination file.
154 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
155 a DNS name when it is resolved.
157 * Changes in Wget 1.12
159 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
161 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
162 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
163 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
164 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
166 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
167 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
168 style tags and attributes.
169 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
170 --convert-links is specified.
171 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
172 when --convert-links is specified.
174 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
175 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
177 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
178 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
179 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
180 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
181 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
183 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
184 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
186 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
187 support alternative default names for index.html.
189 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
190 support password prompts at the console.
192 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
195 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
196 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
199 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
200 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
201 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
203 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
204 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
206 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
207 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
208 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
209 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
211 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
213 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
214 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
216 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
217 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
218 locally with content.
220 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
221 to a pointer-to-time_t.
223 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
225 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
227 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
229 ** Translation updates
231 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
233 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
234 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
236 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
237 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
238 meaningful, is still an error.)
240 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
241 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
243 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
244 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
245 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
246 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
248 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
249 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
250 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
253 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
255 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
256 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
258 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
259 related assertion failure was fixed).
261 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
262 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
264 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
265 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
266 useful for some limited cases.
268 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
269 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
270 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
272 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
273 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
275 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
277 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
278 rather than the first one it got.
280 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
281 header in recursive fetches.
283 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
284 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
285 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
286 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
287 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
288 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
289 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
291 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
292 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
294 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
295 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
296 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
297 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
298 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
301 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
302 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
303 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
305 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
306 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
307 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
309 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
310 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
311 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
312 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
313 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
315 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
316 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
317 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
318 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
319 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
321 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
323 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
324 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
325 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
327 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
328 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
329 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
330 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
333 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
334 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
335 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
336 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
338 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
339 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
340 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
341 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
342 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
343 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
344 when downloading to stdout.
348 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
349 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
350 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
351 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
352 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
353 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
354 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
355 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
357 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
358 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
360 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
361 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
362 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
363 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
364 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
365 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
366 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
368 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
369 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
370 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
373 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
374 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
375 are no longer supported.
377 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
378 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
379 revert to the old behavior.
381 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
382 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
383 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
384 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
385 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
387 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
388 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
389 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
391 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
392 not arrive from the network.
394 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
395 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
396 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
397 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
398 be used to revert to the old behavior.
400 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
401 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
403 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
404 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
405 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
406 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
407 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
410 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
411 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
412 specified via `.wgetrc'.
414 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
415 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
416 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
417 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
418 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
421 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
422 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
423 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
424 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
425 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
426 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
427 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
428 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
430 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
432 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
434 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
436 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
437 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
438 send a POST request with the specified contents.
440 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
442 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
443 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
444 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
445 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
448 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
449 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
450 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
452 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
453 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
454 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
456 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
457 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
458 considered a fatal error.
460 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
463 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
464 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
465 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
466 characters such as space. You can use the new option
467 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
468 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
469 non-native partitions.
471 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
472 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
473 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
474 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
476 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
477 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
479 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
480 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
482 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
483 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
484 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
486 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
488 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
490 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
492 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
493 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
494 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
495 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
496 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
498 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
499 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
500 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
503 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
505 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
506 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
507 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
510 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
511 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
512 have been downloaded.
514 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
515 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
516 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
518 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
519 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
520 are now converted correctly.
522 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
523 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
526 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
527 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
528 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
530 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
531 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
534 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
535 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
537 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
540 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
541 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
543 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
544 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
545 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
546 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
548 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
550 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
552 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
554 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
555 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
558 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
559 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
560 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
562 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
563 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
564 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
565 stressing for the server and the network.
567 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
570 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
571 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
573 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
574 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
577 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
578 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
579 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
580 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
583 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
585 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
586 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
587 large sites (thousands of documents).
589 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
590 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
591 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
592 distribution installed on your system.
594 * Changes in Wget 1.6
596 ** Administrative changes.
598 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
599 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
600 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
601 are being helped by many other people.
603 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
606 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
608 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
609 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
610 the web page for downloading instructions.
612 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
613 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
614 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
616 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
617 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
618 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
619 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
621 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
622 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
623 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
624 default in the system wgetrc.
626 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
627 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
628 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
630 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
631 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
632 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
634 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
635 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
636 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
638 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
640 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
641 bound to multiple IP addresses.
643 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
645 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
647 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
649 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
651 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
653 ** Wget speaks many languages!
655 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
656 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
657 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
659 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
661 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
663 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
665 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
667 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
668 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
670 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
673 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
674 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
676 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
679 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
680 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
683 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
685 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
686 standards set by other GNU utilities.
688 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
689 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
691 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
694 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
695 distributed with Wget.
697 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
699 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
701 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
703 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
705 ** Can do passive FTP.
709 ** Info documentation expanded.
711 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
713 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
717 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
719 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
720 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
722 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
724 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
726 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
729 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
731 ** --convert-links should work now.
735 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
739 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
741 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
743 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
745 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
746 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
747 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
748 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
749 most importantly, use.
751 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
752 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
754 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
755 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
756 wget http://user:password@hostname/
758 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
759 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
760 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
762 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
763 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
765 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
766 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
768 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
770 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
771 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
773 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
776 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
777 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
780 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
781 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
782 sysadmin to like you).
784 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
786 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
789 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
790 through a proxy server.
792 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
793 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
795 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
798 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
799 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
801 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
803 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
805 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
807 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
808 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
810 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
811 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
813 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
815 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
816 turn on mirroring options).
818 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
820 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
822 ** A host of bugfixes.
824 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
826 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
828 ** Added support for no_proxy
830 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
832 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
834 ** More natural command-line options
836 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
838 ** Added support for robots.txt
840 ** Fixed some minor bugs
842 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
844 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
846 ** REST supported in FTP
848 ** Proxy servers supported
850 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
851 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
852 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
854 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
856 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
858 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
860 ** autoconf supported
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