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9 * Changes in Wget X.Y.Z
11 ** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP
12 payload on 4xx or 5xx errors.
14 ** Add support for WARC files.
16 ** Fix a memory leak problem in the GNU TLS backend.
18 ** Autoreconf works again for distributed tarballs.
20 ** Print some diagnostic messages to stderr not to stdout.
22 ** Report stdout close errors.
24 ** Accept the --bit option.
26 * Changes in Wget 1.13.4
28 ** Now --version and --help work again.
30 ** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc.
32 ** Now --timestamping and --continue work well together.
34 ** Return a network failure when FTP downloads fail and --timestamping
38 * Changes in Wget 1.13.3
42 ** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
45 ** Fix some portability issues.
47 ** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
49 ** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
51 ** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
53 ** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
55 ** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
57 ** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
59 ** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
62 ** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
63 and -c influences the transferred data amount.
65 ** GNU TLS backend works again.
67 ** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
69 ** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
70 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
71 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
72 behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
74 ** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
77 ** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
80 ** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
82 ** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
84 ** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
87 ** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
88 on a network error and -nc is used.
90 ** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
93 ** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
95 ** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
96 by the same host on different pages.
98 ** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
99 it is the output destination file.
101 ** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
102 a DNS name when it is resolved.
104 * Changes in Wget 1.12
106 ** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
108 ** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
109 SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
110 embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
111 Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
113 ** Added support for CSS. This includes:
114 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
115 style tags and attributes.
116 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
117 --convert-links is specified.
118 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
119 when --convert-links is specified.
121 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
122 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
124 ** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
125 3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
126 with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
127 before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
128 <wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
130 ** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
131 don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
133 ** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
134 support alternative default names for index.html.
136 ** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
137 support password prompts at the console.
139 ** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
142 ** The output generated by the --version option now includes
143 information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
146 ** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
147 the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
148 still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
150 ** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
151 forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
153 ** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
154 now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
155 auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
156 for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
158 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
160 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
161 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
163 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
164 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
165 locally with content.
167 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
168 to a pointer-to-time_t.
170 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
172 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
174 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
176 ** Translation updates
178 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
180 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
181 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
183 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
184 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
185 meaningful, is still an error.)
187 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
188 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
190 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
191 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
192 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
193 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
195 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
196 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
197 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
200 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
202 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
203 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
205 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
206 related assertion failure was fixed).
208 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
209 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
211 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
212 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
213 useful for some limited cases.
215 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
216 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
217 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
219 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
220 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
222 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
224 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
225 rather than the first one it got.
227 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
228 header in recursive fetches.
230 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
231 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
232 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
233 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
234 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
235 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
236 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
238 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
239 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
241 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
242 the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
243 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
244 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
245 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
248 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
249 matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
250 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
252 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
253 in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
254 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
256 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
257 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
258 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
259 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
260 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
262 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
263 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
264 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
265 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
266 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
268 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
270 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
271 files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
272 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
274 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
275 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
276 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
277 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
280 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
281 supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
282 by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
283 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
285 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
286 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
287 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
288 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
289 the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
290 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
291 when downloading to stdout.
295 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
296 against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
297 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
298 OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
299 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
300 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
301 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
302 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
304 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
305 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
307 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
308 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
309 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
310 otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
311 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
312 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
313 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
315 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
316 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
317 URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
320 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
321 first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
322 are no longer supported.
324 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
325 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
326 revert to the old behavior.
328 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
329 headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
330 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
331 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
332 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
334 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
335 detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
336 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
338 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
339 not arrive from the network.
341 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
342 default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
343 which might not be what the user wants. The new option
344 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
345 be used to revert to the old behavior.
347 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
348 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
350 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
351 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
352 `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
353 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
354 backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
357 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
358 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
359 specified via `.wgetrc'.
361 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
362 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
363 permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
364 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
365 cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
368 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
369 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
370 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
371 and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
372 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
373 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
374 http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
375 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
377 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
379 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
381 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
383 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
384 requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
385 send a POST request with the specified contents.
387 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
389 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
390 the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
391 data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
392 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
395 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
396 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
397 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
399 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
400 firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
401 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
403 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
404 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
405 considered a fatal error.
407 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
410 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
411 whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
412 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
413 characters such as space. You can use the new option
414 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
415 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
416 non-native partitions.
418 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
419 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
420 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
421 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
423 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
424 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
426 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
427 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
429 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
430 periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
431 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
433 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
435 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
437 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
439 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
440 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
441 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
442 dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
443 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
445 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
446 `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
447 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
450 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
452 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
453 calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
454 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
457 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
458 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
459 have been downloaded.
461 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
462 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
463 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
465 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
466 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
467 are now converted correctly.
469 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
470 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
473 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
474 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
475 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
477 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
478 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
481 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
482 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
484 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
487 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
488 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
490 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
491 quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
492 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
493 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
495 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
497 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
499 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
501 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
502 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
505 ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
506 server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
507 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
509 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
510 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
511 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
512 stressing for the server and the network.
514 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
517 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
518 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
520 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
521 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
524 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
525 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
526 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
527 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
530 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
532 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
533 where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
534 large sites (thousands of documents).
536 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
537 documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
538 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
539 distribution installed on your system.
541 * Changes in Wget 1.6
543 ** Administrative changes.
545 *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
546 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
547 real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
548 are being helped by many other people.
550 *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
553 http://sunsite.dk/wget/
555 *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
556 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
557 the web page for downloading instructions.
559 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
560 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
561 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
563 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
564 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
565 retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
566 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
568 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
569 of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
570 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
571 default in the system wgetrc.
573 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
574 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
575 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
577 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
578 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
579 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
581 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
582 always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
583 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
585 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
587 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
588 bound to multiple IP addresses.
590 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
592 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
594 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
596 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
598 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
600 ** Wget speaks many languages!
602 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
603 set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
604 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
606 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
608 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
610 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
612 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
614 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
615 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
617 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
620 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
621 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
623 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
626 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
627 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
630 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
632 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
633 standards set by other GNU utilities.
635 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
636 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
638 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
641 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
642 distributed with Wget.
644 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
646 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
648 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
650 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
652 ** Can do passive FTP.
656 ** Info documentation expanded.
658 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
660 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
664 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
666 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
667 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
669 ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
671 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
673 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
676 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
678 ** --convert-links should work now.
682 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
686 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
688 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
690 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
692 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
693 Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
694 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
695 everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
696 most importantly, use.
698 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
699 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
701 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
702 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
703 wget http://user:password@hostname/
705 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
706 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
707 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
709 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
710 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
712 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
713 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
715 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
717 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
718 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
720 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
723 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
724 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
727 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
728 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
729 sysadmin to like you).
731 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
733 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
736 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
737 through a proxy server.
739 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
740 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
742 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
745 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
746 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
748 ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
750 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
752 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
754 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
755 new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
757 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
758 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
760 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
762 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
763 turn on mirroring options).
765 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
767 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
769 ** A host of bugfixes.
771 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
773 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
775 ** Added support for no_proxy
777 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
779 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
781 ** More natural command-line options
783 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
785 ** Added support for robots.txt
787 ** Fixed some minor bugs
789 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
791 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
793 ** REST supported in FTP
795 ** Proxy servers supported
797 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
798 as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
799 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
801 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
803 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
805 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
807 ** autoconf supported
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