Wget considers the file mentioned in the --post-file argument as a
binary file and does not strip any control characters. The lack of this
information in the documentation can cause a lot of headaches debugging
for a simple issue
This commit causes the --show-progress option to print the progress bar
to stderr even when a logfile was explicitly provided on the command
line. Such a combination allows a user to log the output of Wget while
simultaneously keeping track of the download status.
Wget was susceptible to a symlink attack which could create arbitrary
files, directories or symbolic links and set their permissions when
retrieving a directory recursively through FTP. This commit changes the
default settings in Wget such that Wget no longer creates local symbolic
links, but rather traverses them and retrieves the pointed-to file in
such a retrieval.
The old behaviour can be attained by passing the --retr-symlinks=no
option to the Wget invokation command.
This commit introduces two new changes to how the progress bar looks:
1. Support the --progress=bar:noscroll option which will prevent the filename
from scrolling in the progress bar
2. Print human readable value for the amount already downloaded for any file
This is a relatively large commit that implements two major features:
1. Implement --show-progress switch to force the display of the progress bar in
any verbosity level
2. Edit the implementation of the progress bar so that the filename is displayed
in the same line.
This patch adds an option `--start-pos' for specifying starting position
of a HTTP or FTP download.
Signed-off-by: Yousong Zhou <yszhou4tech@gmail.com>
Added documentation for --regex-type and --preserve-permissions
options.
Fixed --preserve-permissions to work properly also if downloading a
single file from FTP.
Signed-off-by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>
Or rather, with the development version 4.13.90, which will eventually
become Texinfo 5.0.
* doc/wget.texi: Use '@item' instead of '@itemx' in several places,
as Texinfo 5 refuses to process an '@itemx' that is not preceded by an
'@item'.
Copyright-paperwork-exempt: yes
Signed-off-by: Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com>
