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GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000 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 1.5.3+dev
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** 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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* Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.5.0
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** Wget speaks many languages!
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On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
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set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
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Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
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** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
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** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
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** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
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** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
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** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
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minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
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** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
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`wget-log'.
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** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
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passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
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** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
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directories.
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** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
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instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
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ASCII type transfer:
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wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
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** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
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standards set by other GNU utilities.
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** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
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Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
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** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
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download.
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** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
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distributed with Wget.
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* Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.4.3
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** Wget is now a GNU utility.
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** Can do passive FTP.
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** Reads .netrc.
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** Info documentation expanded.
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** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
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** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
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** Lots of bugfixes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.4.2
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** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
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thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
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** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
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** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
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** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
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files.
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** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
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** --convert-links should work now.
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** Minor bugfixes.
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* Changes in Wget 1.4.1
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** Minor bugfixes.
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** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
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** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
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* Changes in Wget 1.4.0
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** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
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Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
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stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
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everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
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most importantly, use.
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** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
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changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
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** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
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specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
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wget http://user:password@hostname/
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** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
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work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
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information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
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** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
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wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
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** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
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enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
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** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
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** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
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Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
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** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
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connections.
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** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
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default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
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course :-)
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** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
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data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
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sysadmin to like you).
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** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
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** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
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recursively.
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** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
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through a proxy server.
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** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
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faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
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** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
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wget -k.
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** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
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resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
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** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
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wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
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** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
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** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
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new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
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** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
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<Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
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** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
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** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
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turn on mirroring options).
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** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
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** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
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** A host of bugfixes.
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* Changes in Geturl 1.3
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** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
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** Added support for no_proxy
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** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
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** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
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** More natural command-line options
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** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
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** Added support for robots.txt
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** Fixed some minor bugs
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* Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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* Changes in Geturl 1.1
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** REST supported in FTP
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** Proxy servers supported
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** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
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as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
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geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
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** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
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** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
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** <base href="xxx"> supported
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** autoconf supported
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----------------------------------------------------------------------
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Copyright information:
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Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
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copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that
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the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus
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giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this
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document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions,
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provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last
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changed them.
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