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[svn] Document new implementation of continuing partial downloads.

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@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively.
** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works. ** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works.
** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and "start
over" retries work correctly even when downloading to stdout.
** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar" headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify