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| 2 | GNU Wget
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| 3 | ========
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| 4 | Current Web home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
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| 5 |
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| 6 | GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
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| 7 | the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
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| 8 | retrieval through HTTP proxies.
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| 9 |
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| 10 | It can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote
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| 11 | web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original
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| 12 | site. This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading."
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| 13 | While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
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| 14 | (/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in
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| 15 | downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.
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| 16 |
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| 17 | Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a
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| 18 | hierarchy of directories and files.
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| 19 |
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| 20 | With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has
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| 21 | changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the
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| 22 | newer files.
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| 23 |
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| 24 | Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
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| 25 | connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will
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| 26 | keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server
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| 27 | supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the
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| 28 | download from where it left off.
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| 29 |
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| 30 | If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style
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| 31 | gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support
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| 32 | for socks.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line
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| 35 | options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to
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| 36 | install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for
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| 37 | site settings.
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| 38 |
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| 39 | Wget works under almost all Unix variants in use today and, unlike
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| 40 | many of its historical predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus
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| 41 | requiring no additional software, such as Perl. The external software
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| 42 | it does work with, such as OpenSSL, is optional. As Wget uses the GNU
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| 43 | Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to new Unix-like systems.
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| 44 | The installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file.
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| 45 |
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| 46 | As with other GNU software, the latest version of Wget can be found at
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| 47 | the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. Wget
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| 48 | resides at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/>.
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| 49 |
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| 50 | Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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| 51 |
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| 52 | See the file `MAILING-LIST' for information about Wget mailing lists.
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| 53 | Wget's home page is temporarily at <http://wget.sunsite.dk/>. It is
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| 54 | being migrated to <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be
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| 55 | its permanent home.
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| 56 |
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| 57 |
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| 58 | MAINTAINER: Mauro Tortonesi <mauro@ferrara.linux.it>
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| 59 |
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| 60 | Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see the file
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| 61 | AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs for a
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| 62 | detailed listing of all contributions.
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| 63 |
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| 64 |
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| 65 | Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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| 68 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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| 69 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
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| 70 | (at your option) any later version.
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| 71 |
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| 72 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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| 73 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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| 74 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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| 75 | GNU General Public License for more details.
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| 76 |
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| 77 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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| 78 | along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
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| 79 | Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
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| 80 |
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| 81 | In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation
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| 82 | gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the
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| 83 | OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
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| 84 | that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
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| 85 | the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
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| 86 | in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you
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| 87 | modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
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| 88 | file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
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| 89 | so, delete this exception statement from your version.
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