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GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005,
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2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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See the end for copying conditions.
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Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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* Changes in Wget 1.13.1
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** Support HTTP/1.1
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** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of
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OpenSSL.
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** Fix some portability issues.
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** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response.
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** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy.
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** Set new cookies after an authorization failure.
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** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file.
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** Cope better with unclosed html tags.
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** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout.
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** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used,
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but use directly GET.
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** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified
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and -c influences the transferred data amount.
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** GNU TLS backend works again.
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** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together.
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** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the
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local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a
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backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old
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behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
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** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough
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CSS.
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** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following
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links.
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** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them.
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** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads.
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** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough
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the --config option.
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** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence'
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on a network error and -nc is used.
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** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends
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in .htm.
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** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method.
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** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used
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by the same host on different pages.
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** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but
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it is the output destination file.
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** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to
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a DNS name when it is resolved.
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* Changes in Wget 1.12
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** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org
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** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting
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SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of
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embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao
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Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>.
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** Added support for CSS. This includes:
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- Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML
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style tags and attributes.
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- Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when
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--convert-links is specified.
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- Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension,
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when --convert-links is specified.
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CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek
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<ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>.
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** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC
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3987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links
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with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8
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before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier
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<wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code.
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** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads
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don't proceed as expected (see the manual).
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** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
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support alternative default names for index.html.
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** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to
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support password prompts at the console.
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** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from
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an external file.
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** The output generated by the --version option now includes
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information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options
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that were selected.
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** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect
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the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is
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still acceptable, but is now deprecated.
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** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which
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forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes
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** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are
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now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent,
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auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation
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for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11.
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* Changes in Wget 1.11.4
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** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
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download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
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** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
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remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
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locally with content.
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** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
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to a pointer-to-time_t.
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** Translation updates for Catalan.
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* Changes in Wget 1.11.3
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** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
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** Translation updates
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* Changes in Wget 1.11.2
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** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
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(Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
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** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
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has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
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meaningful, is still an error.)
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** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
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(too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
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** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
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and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
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information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
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multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
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** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
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for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
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problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
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FTP URLs only.
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* Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
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** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
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(regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
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** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
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related assertion failure was fixed).
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** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
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know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
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** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
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authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
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useful for some limited cases.
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** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
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Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
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be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
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** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
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lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
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* Changes in Wget 1.11.
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** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
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rather than the first one it got.
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** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
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header in recursive fetches.
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** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
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for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
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RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
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assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
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just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
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Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
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automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
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** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
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be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
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** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
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the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying
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the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
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current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
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EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
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to enable it.
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** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
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matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I,
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-A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
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** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
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in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when
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logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
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** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It
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was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running
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broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
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`--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
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by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
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** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
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available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
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code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
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still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
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repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
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* Changes in Wget 1.10.
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** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
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files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
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majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
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** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
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1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
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`--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
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IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
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tested on Windows.
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** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
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supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
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by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
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release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
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** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
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has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
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with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
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where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
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the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
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retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
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when downloading to stdout.
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** SSL/TLS changes:
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*** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
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against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
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certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
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OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
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yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
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from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
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and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
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command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
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*** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
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the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
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*** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
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unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
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previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
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otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
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verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
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requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
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can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
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*** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
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Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
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URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
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purpose.
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*** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
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first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
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are no longer supported.
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** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
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`--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
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revert to the old behavior.
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** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
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headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
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http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
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"foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
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`--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
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** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
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detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
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still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
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** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
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not arrive from the network.
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** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
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default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
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which might not be what the user wants. The new option
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`--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
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be used to revert to the old behavior.
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** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
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the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
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** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
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are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
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`--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
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also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
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backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
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write `--no-glob'.
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Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
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is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
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specified via `.wgetrc'.
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** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
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save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
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permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
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information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
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cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
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browser session.
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** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
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switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
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--password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
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and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
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been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
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the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
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http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
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.wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
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* `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
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* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.9.
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** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
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requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
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send a POST request with the specified contents.
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** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
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** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
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the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
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data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
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`--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
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respectively.
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** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
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recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
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The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
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** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
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firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
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log on to the proxy as "username@host".
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** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
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even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
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considered a fatal error.
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** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
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caching DNS lookups.
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** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
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whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
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nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
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characters such as space. You can use the new option
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--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
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useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
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non-native partitions.
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** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
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users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
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declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
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Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
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** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
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as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
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** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
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values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
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** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
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periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
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expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
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* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.8.
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** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
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You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
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types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
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dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
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indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
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** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
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`--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
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tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
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per second.
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** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
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*** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
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calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
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downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
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before.
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*** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
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This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
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have been downloaded.
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*** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
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already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
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conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
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*** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
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same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
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are now converted correctly.
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*** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
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retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
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to display the page.
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*** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
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`wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
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and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
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** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
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base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
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relative.
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** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
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addresses when accessing the first one fails.
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** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
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non-standard port.
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** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
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<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
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** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
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quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
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no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
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which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
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** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
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* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.7.
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** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
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use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
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installed.
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** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
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server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
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and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
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** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
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Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
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many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
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stressing for the server and the network.
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** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
|
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servers.
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** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
|
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puts you in some directory other than '/'.
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** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
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example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
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expect.
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** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
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reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
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are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
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skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
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also more general.
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** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
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** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
|
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where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
|
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large sites (thousands of documents).
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** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
|
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documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
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1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
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distribution installed on your system.
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* Changes in Wget 1.6
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** Administrative changes.
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*** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
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Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
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real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
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are being helped by many other people.
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*** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
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Take a look at:
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http://sunsite.dk/wget/
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*** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
|
||
sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
|
||
the web page for downloading instructions.
|
||
|
||
** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
|
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modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
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||
using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
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|
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** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
|
||
Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
|
||
retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
|
||
opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
|
||
|
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** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
|
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of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
|
||
first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
|
||
default in the system wgetrc.
|
||
|
||
** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
|
||
Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
|
||
page properly (e.g. inlined images).
|
||
|
||
** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
|
||
to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
|
||
"\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
|
||
|
||
** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
|
||
always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
|
||
passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
|
||
|
||
** A number of new translation files have been added.
|
||
|
||
** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
|
||
bound to multiple IP addresses.
|
||
|
||
** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
|
||
|
||
* Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
|
||
|
||
* Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
|
||
|
||
* Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Wget 1.5.0
|
||
|
||
** Wget speaks many languages!
|
||
|
||
On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
|
||
set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
|
||
Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
|
||
|
||
** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
|
||
|
||
** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
|
||
|
||
** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
|
||
|
||
** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
|
||
|
||
** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
|
||
minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
|
||
|
||
** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
|
||
`wget-log'.
|
||
|
||
** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
|
||
passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
|
||
|
||
** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
|
||
directories.
|
||
|
||
** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
|
||
instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
|
||
ASCII type transfer:
|
||
|
||
wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
|
||
|
||
** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
|
||
standards set by other GNU utilities.
|
||
|
||
** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
|
||
Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
|
||
|
||
** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
|
||
download.
|
||
|
||
** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
|
||
distributed with Wget.
|
||
|
||
* Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
|
||
|
||
* Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Wget 1.4.3
|
||
|
||
** Wget is now a GNU utility.
|
||
|
||
** Can do passive FTP.
|
||
|
||
** Reads .netrc.
|
||
|
||
** Info documentation expanded.
|
||
|
||
** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
|
||
|
||
** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
|
||
|
||
** Lots of bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Wget 1.4.2
|
||
|
||
** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
|
||
thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
|
||
|
||
** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
|
||
|
||
** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
|
||
|
||
** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
|
||
files.
|
||
|
||
** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
|
||
|
||
** --convert-links should work now.
|
||
|
||
** Minor bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Wget 1.4.1
|
||
|
||
** Minor bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
|
||
|
||
** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Wget 1.4.0
|
||
|
||
** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
|
||
Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
|
||
stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
|
||
everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
|
||
most importantly, use.
|
||
|
||
** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
|
||
changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
|
||
|
||
** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
|
||
specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
|
||
wget http://user:password@hostname/
|
||
|
||
** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
|
||
work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
|
||
information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
|
||
|
||
** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
|
||
wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
|
||
|
||
** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
|
||
enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
|
||
|
||
** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
|
||
|
||
** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
|
||
Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
|
||
|
||
** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
|
||
connections.
|
||
|
||
** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
|
||
default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
|
||
course :-)
|
||
|
||
** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
|
||
data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
|
||
sysadmin to like you).
|
||
|
||
** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
|
||
|
||
** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
|
||
recursively.
|
||
|
||
** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
|
||
through a proxy server.
|
||
|
||
** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
|
||
faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
|
||
|
||
** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
|
||
wget -k.
|
||
|
||
** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
|
||
resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
|
||
|
||
** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
|
||
|
||
wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
|
||
|
||
** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
|
||
|
||
** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
|
||
new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
|
||
|
||
** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
|
||
<Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
|
||
|
||
** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
|
||
|
||
** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
|
||
turn on mirroring options).
|
||
|
||
** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
|
||
|
||
** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
|
||
|
||
** A host of bugfixes.
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Geturl 1.3
|
||
|
||
** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
|
||
|
||
** Added support for no_proxy
|
||
|
||
** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
|
||
|
||
** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
|
||
|
||
** More natural command-line options
|
||
|
||
** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
|
||
|
||
** Added support for robots.txt
|
||
|
||
** Fixed some minor bugs
|
||
|
||
* Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
|
||
|
||
* Changes in Geturl 1.1
|
||
|
||
** REST supported in FTP
|
||
|
||
** Proxy servers supported
|
||
|
||
** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
|
||
as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
|
||
geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
|
||
|
||
** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
|
||
|
||
** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
|
||
|
||
** <base href="xxx"> supported
|
||
|
||
** autoconf supported
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Copyright information:
|
||
|
||
Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
|
||
|
||
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
|
||
copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that
|
||
the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus
|
||
giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
|
||
|
||
Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this
|
||
document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions,
|
||
provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last
|
||
changed them.
|