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GNU Wget
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Current Web home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
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GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
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the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
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retrieval through HTTP proxies.
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It can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote
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web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original
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site. This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading."
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While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
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(/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in
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downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.
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Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a
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hierarchy of directories and files.
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With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has
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changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the
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newer files.
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Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
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connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will
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keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server
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supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the
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download from where it left off.
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If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style
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gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support
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for socks.
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Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line
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options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to
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install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for
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site settings.
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Wget works under almost all Unix variants in use today and, unlike
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many of its historical predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus
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requiring no additional software, such as Perl. The external software
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it does work with, such as OpenSSL, is optional. As Wget uses the GNU
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Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to new Unix-like systems.
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The installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file.
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As with other GNU software, the latest version of Wget can be found at
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the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. Wget
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resides at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/>.
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Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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See the file `MAILING-LIST' for information about Wget mailing lists.
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Wget's home page is temporarily at <http://wget.sunsite.dk/>. It is
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being migrated to <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be
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its permanent home.
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2005-04-17 13:09:39 -04:00
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MAINTAINER: Mauro Tortonesi <mauro@ferrara.linux.it>
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Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see the file
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AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs for a
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detailed listing of all contributions.
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Copyright (C) 1995-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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(at your option) any later version.
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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GNU General Public License for more details.
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
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USA.
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In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation
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gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the
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OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
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that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
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the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
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in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you
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modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
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file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
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so, delete this exception statement from your version.
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