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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
13 ** Fix some portability issues.
15 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
17 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
19 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
21 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
23 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
25 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
27 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
30 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
31 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
33 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
35 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
37 * Changes in Wget 1.12
39 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
41 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
42 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
43 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
44 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
46 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
47 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
48 style tags and attributes.
49 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
50 --convert-links is specified.
51 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
52 when --convert-links is specified.
54 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
55 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
57 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
58 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
59 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
60 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
61 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
63 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
64 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
66 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
67 support alternative default names for index.html.
69 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
70 support password prompts at the console.
72 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
75 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
76 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
79 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
80 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
81 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
83 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
84 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
86 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
87 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
88 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
89 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
91 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
93 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
94 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
96 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
97 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
100 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
101 to a pointer-to-time_t.
103 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
105 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
107 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
109 ** Translation updates
111 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
113 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
114 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
116 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
117 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
118 meaningful, is still an error.)
120 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
121 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
123 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
124 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
125 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
126 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
128 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
129 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
130 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
133 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
135 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
136 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
138 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
139 related assertion failure was fixed).
141 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
142 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
144 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
145 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
146 useful for some limited cases.
148 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
149 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
150 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
152 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
153 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
155 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
157 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
158 rather than the first one it got.
160 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
161 header in recursive fetches.
163 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
164 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
165 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
166 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
167 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
168 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
169 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
171 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
172 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
174 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
175 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
176 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
177 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
178 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
181 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
182 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
183 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
185 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
186 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
187 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
189 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
190 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
191 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
192 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
193 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
195 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
196 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
197 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
198 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
199 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
201 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
203 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
204 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
205 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
207 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
208 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
209 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
210 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
213 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
214 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
215 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
216 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
218 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
219 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
220 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
221 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
222 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
223 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
224 when downloading to stdout.
228 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
229 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
230 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
231 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
232 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
233 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
234 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
235 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
237 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
238 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
240 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
241 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
242 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
243 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
244 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
245 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
246 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
248 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
249 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
250 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
253 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
254 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
255 are no longer supported.
257 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
258 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
259 revert to the old behavior.
261 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
262 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
263 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
264 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
265 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
267 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
268 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
269 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
271 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
272 not arrive from the network.
274 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
275 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
276 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
277 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
278 be used to revert to the old behavior.
280 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
281 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
283 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
284 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
285 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
286 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
287 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
290 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
291 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
292 specified via `.wgetrc'.
294 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
295 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
296 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
297 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
298 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
301 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
302 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
303 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
304 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
305 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
306 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
307 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
308 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
310 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
312 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
314 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
316 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
317 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
318 send a POST request with the specified contents.
320 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
322 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
323 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
324 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
325 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
328 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
329 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
330 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
332 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
333 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
334 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
336 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
337 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
338 considered a fatal error.
340 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
343 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
344 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
345 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
346 characters such as space. You can use the new option
347 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
348 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
349 non-native partitions.
351 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
352 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
353 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
354 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
356 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
357 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
359 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
360 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
362 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
363 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
364 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
366 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
368 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
370 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
372 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
373 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
374 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
375 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
376 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
378 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
379 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
380 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
383 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
385 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
386 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
387 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
390 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
391 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
392 have been downloaded.
394 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
395 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
396 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
398 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
399 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
400 are now converted correctly.
402 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
403 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
406 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
407 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
408 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
410 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
411 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
414 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
415 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
417 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
420 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
421 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
423 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
424 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
425 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
426 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
428 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
430 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
432 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
434 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
435 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
438 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
439 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
440 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
442 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
443 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
444 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
445 stressing for the server and the network.
447 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
450 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
451 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
453 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
454 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
457 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
458 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
459 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
460 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
463 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
465 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
466 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
467 large sites (thousands of documents).
469 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
470 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
471 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
472 distribution installed on your system.
474 * Changes in Wget 1.6
476 ** Administrative changes.
478 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
479 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
480 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
481 are being helped by many other people.
483 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
486 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
488 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
489 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
490 the web page for downloading instructions.
492 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
493 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
494 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
496 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
497 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
498 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
499 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
501 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
502 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
503 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
504 default in the system wgetrc.
506 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
507 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
508 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
510 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
511 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
512 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
514 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
515 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
516 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
518 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
520 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
521 bound to multiple IP addresses.
523 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
525 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
527 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
529 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
531 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
533 ** Wget speaks many languages!
535 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
536 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
537 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
539 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
541 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
543 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
545 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
547 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
548 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
550 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
553 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
554 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
556 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
559 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
560 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
563 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
565 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
566 standards set by other GNU utilities.
568 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
569 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
571 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
574 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
575 distributed with Wget.
577 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
579 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
581 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
583 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
585 ** Can do passive FTP.
589 ** Info documentation expanded.
591 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
593 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
597 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
599 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
600 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
602 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
604 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
606 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
609 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
611 ** --convert-links should work now.
615 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
619 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
621 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
623 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
625 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
626 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
627 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
628 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
629 most importantly, use.
631 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
632 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
634 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
635 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
636 wget http://user:password@hostname/
638 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
639 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
640 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
642 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
643 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
645 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
646 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
648 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
650 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
651 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
653 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
656 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
657 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
660 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
661 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
662 sysadmin to like you).
664 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
666 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
669 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
670 through a proxy server.
672 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
673 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
675 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
678 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
679 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
681 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
683 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
685 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
687 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
688 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
690 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
691 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
693 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
695 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
696 turn on mirroring options).
698 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
700 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
702 ** A host of bugfixes.
704 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
706 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
708 ** Added support for no_proxy
710 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
712 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
714 ** More natural command-line options
716 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
718 ** Added support for robots.txt
720 ** Fixed some minor bugs
722 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
724 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
726 ** REST supported in FTP
728 ** Proxy servers supported
730 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
731 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
732 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
734 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
736 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
738 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
740 ** autoconf supported
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