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More attention to Content-Disposition's buggy state.

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2007-12-05 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* NEWS: Reword warnings regarding --content-disposition.
2007-11-28 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* Makefile.am, README, autogen.sh, configure.bat, configure.in,

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** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
** Wget now saves HTTP downloads using file names specified by the
`Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying the
file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. For the time
being, Content-Disposition is not used by default, to avoid the extra
round-trips incurred (must specify "-e contentdisposition=yes"); this
may change in a future version. NOTE: This functionality is currently
considered "experimental", and may not be fully functional.
** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
to enable it.
** The GnuTLS library is now also experimentally supported for https
downloads. This is still work-in-progress. OpenSSL is still used by

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2007-12-05 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* wget.texi <Wgetrc Commands>: Explicitly mention that
--content-disposition has known issues.
2007-10-13 Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>
* wget.texi <Mailing Lists>: Replaced mention of no-longer

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@ -2554,8 +2554,8 @@ Set the connect timeout---the same as @samp{--connect-timeout}.
@item content_disposition = on/off
If this is set to on, experimental (not fully-functional) support for
@samp{Content-Disposition} headers is enabled. This can currently result in
extra round-trips to the server for a @samp{HEAD} request, which is why
it is not currently enabled by default.
extra round-trips to the server for a @samp{HEAD} request, and is known
to suffer from a few bugs, which is why it is not currently enabled by default.
This option is useful for some file-downloading CGI programs that use
@samp{Content-Disposition} headers to describe what the name of a