1 | GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
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3 | Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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4 | See the end for copying conditions.
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6 | Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
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9 | * Wget 1.10.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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12 | * Changes in Wget 1.10.
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14 | ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
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15 | files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the
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16 | majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
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17 |
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18 | ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in
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19 | 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags
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20 | `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
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21 | IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
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22 | tested on Windows.
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23 |
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24 | ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
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25 | supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used
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26 | by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
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27 | release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
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28 |
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29 | ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
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30 | has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead,
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31 | with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
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32 | where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
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33 | the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
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34 | retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
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35 | when downloading to stdout.
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36 |
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37 | ** SSL/TLS changes:
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38 |
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39 | *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
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40 | against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA
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41 | certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
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42 | OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
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43 | yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
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44 | from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
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45 | and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
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46 | command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
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47 |
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48 | *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
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49 | the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
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50 |
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51 | *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
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52 | unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
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53 | previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
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54 | otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate
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55 | verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
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56 | requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
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57 | can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
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58 |
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59 | *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
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60 | Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
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61 | URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
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62 | purpose.
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63 |
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64 | *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
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65 | first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options
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66 | are no longer supported.
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67 |
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68 | ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use
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69 | `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
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70 | revert to the old behavior.
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71 |
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72 | ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
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73 | headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
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74 | http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
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75 | "foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of
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76 | `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
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77 |
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78 | ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
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79 | detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
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80 | still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
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81 |
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82 | ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
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83 | not arrive from the network.
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84 |
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85 | ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
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86 | default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
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87 | which might not be what the user wants. The new option
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88 | `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
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89 | be used to revert to the old behavior.
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90 |
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91 | ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
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92 | the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
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93 |
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94 | ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
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95 | are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
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96 | `--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
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97 | also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
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98 | backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
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99 | write `--no-glob'.
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100 |
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101 | Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
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102 | is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
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103 | specified via `.wgetrc'.
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104 |
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105 | ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
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106 | save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
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107 | permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important
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108 | information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
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109 | cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
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110 | browser session.
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111 |
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112 | ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
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113 | switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
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114 | --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
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115 | and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
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116 | been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
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117 | the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
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118 | http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd
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119 | .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
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120 |
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121 | * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
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124 | * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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127 | * Changes in Wget 1.9.
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128 |
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129 | ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
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130 | requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
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131 | send a POST request with the specified contents.
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132 |
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133 | ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
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134 |
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135 | ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
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136 | the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing
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137 | data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using
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138 | `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
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139 | respectively.
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140 |
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141 | ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
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142 | recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
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143 | The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
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144 |
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145 | ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
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146 | firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
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147 | log on to the proxy as "username@host".
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148 |
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149 | ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
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150 | even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
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151 | considered a fatal error.
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152 |
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153 | ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
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154 | caching DNS lookups.
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155 |
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156 | ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
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157 | whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for
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158 | nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
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159 | characters such as space. You can use the new option
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160 | --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
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161 | useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
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162 | non-native partitions.
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163 |
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164 | ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
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165 | users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
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166 | declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
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167 | Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
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168 |
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169 | ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
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170 | as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
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171 |
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172 | ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
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173 | values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
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174 |
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175 | ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
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176 | periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
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177 | expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
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179 |
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180 | * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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183 | * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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186 | * Changes in Wget 1.8.
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187 |
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188 | ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
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189 | You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
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190 | types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
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191 | dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
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192 | indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
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193 |
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194 | ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
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195 | `--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
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196 | tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
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197 | per second.
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198 |
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199 | ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
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200 |
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201 | *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
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202 | calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
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203 | downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
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204 | before.
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205 |
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206 | *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
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207 | This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
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208 | have been downloaded.
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209 |
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210 | *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
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211 | already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
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212 | conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
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213 |
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214 | *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
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215 | same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
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216 | are now converted correctly.
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217 |
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218 | *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
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219 | retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
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220 | to display the page.
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221 |
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222 | *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
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223 | `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
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224 | and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
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225 |
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226 | ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
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227 | base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
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228 | relative.
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229 |
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230 | ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
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231 | addresses when accessing the first one fails.
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232 |
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233 | ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
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234 | non-standard port.
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235 |
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236 | ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
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237 | <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
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238 |
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239 | ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
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240 | quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
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241 | no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
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242 | which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
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243 |
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244 | ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
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246 |
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247 | * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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249 |
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250 | * Changes in Wget 1.7.
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251 |
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252 | ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
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253 | use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
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254 | installed.
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255 |
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256 | ** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
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257 | server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
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258 | and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
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259 |
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260 | ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
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261 | Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
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262 | many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
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263 | stressing for the server and the network.
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264 |
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265 | ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
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266 | servers.
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267 |
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268 | ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
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269 | puts you in some directory other than '/'.
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270 |
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271 | ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
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272 | example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
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273 | expect.
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274 |
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275 | ** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
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276 | reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
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277 | are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
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278 | skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
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279 | also more general.
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280 |
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281 | ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
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282 |
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283 | ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
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284 | where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
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285 | large sites (thousands of documents).
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286 |
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287 | ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
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288 | documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
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289 | 1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
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290 | distribution installed on your system.
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293 | * Changes in Wget 1.6
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294 |
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295 | ** Administrative changes.
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296 |
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297 | *** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
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298 | Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
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299 | real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
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300 | are being helped by many other people.
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301 |
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302 | *** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
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303 | Take a look at:
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304 |
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305 | http://sunsite.dk/wget/
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306 |
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307 | *** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
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308 | sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at
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309 | the web page for downloading instructions.
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310 |
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311 | ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
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312 | modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When
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313 | using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
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314 |
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315 | ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
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316 | Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
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317 | retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
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318 | opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
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319 |
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320 | ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
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321 | of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
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322 | first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by
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323 | default in the system wgetrc.
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324 |
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325 | ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
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326 | Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
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327 | page properly (e.g. inlined images).
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328 |
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329 | ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
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330 | to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
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331 | "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
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332 |
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333 | ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off,
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334 | always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far,
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335 | passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
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336 |
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337 | ** A number of new translation files have been added.
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338 |
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339 | ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts
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340 | bound to multiple IP addresses.
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341 |
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342 | ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
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343 | |
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344 |
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345 | * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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346 | |
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347 |
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348 | * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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349 | |
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350 |
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351 | * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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352 | |
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353 |
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354 | * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
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355 |
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356 | ** Wget speaks many languages!
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357 |
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358 | On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
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359 | set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support
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360 | Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
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361 |
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362 | ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
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363 |
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364 | ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
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365 |
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366 | ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
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367 |
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368 | ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
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369 |
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370 | ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
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371 | minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
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372 |
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373 | ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
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374 | `wget-log'.
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375 |
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376 | ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
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377 | passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
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378 |
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379 | ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
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380 | directories.
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381 |
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382 | ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For
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383 | instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
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384 | ASCII type transfer:
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385 |
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386 | wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
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387 |
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388 | ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
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389 | standards set by other GNU utilities.
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390 |
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391 | ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS
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392 | Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
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393 |
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394 | ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
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395 | download.
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396 |
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397 | ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
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398 | distributed with Wget.
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399 | |
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400 |
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401 | * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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403 |
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404 | * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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406 |
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407 | * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
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408 |
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409 | ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
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410 |
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411 | ** Can do passive FTP.
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412 |
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413 | ** Reads .netrc.
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414 |
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415 | ** Info documentation expanded.
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416 |
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417 | ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
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418 |
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419 | ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
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420 |
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421 | ** Lots of bugfixes.
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423 |
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424 | * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
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425 |
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426 | ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
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427 | thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
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428 |
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429 | ** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
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430 |
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431 | ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
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432 |
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433 | ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
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434 | files.
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435 |
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436 | ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
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437 |
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438 | ** --convert-links should work now.
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439 |
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440 | ** Minor bugfixes.
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441 | |
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442 |
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443 | * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
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444 |
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445 | ** Minor bugfixes.
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446 |
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447 | ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
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448 |
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449 | ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
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450 | |
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451 |
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452 | * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
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453 |
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454 | ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
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455 | Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
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456 | stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
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457 | everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
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458 | most importantly, use.
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459 |
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460 | ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
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461 | changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
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462 |
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463 | ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
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464 | specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
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465 | wget http://user:password@hostname/
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466 |
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467 | ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
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468 | work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
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469 | information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
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470 |
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471 | ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
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472 | wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
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473 |
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474 | ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
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475 | enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
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476 |
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477 | ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
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478 |
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479 | ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with
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480 | Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
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481 |
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482 | ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
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483 | connections.
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484 |
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485 | ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
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486 | default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
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487 | course :-)
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488 |
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489 | ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
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490 | data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
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491 | sysadmin to like you).
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492 |
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493 | ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
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494 |
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495 | ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
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496 | recursively.
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497 |
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498 | ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
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499 | through a proxy server.
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500 |
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501 | ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
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502 | faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
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503 |
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504 | ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
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505 | wget -k.
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506 |
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507 | ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
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508 | resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
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509 |
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510 | ** User-defined headers can be sent. Try
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511 |
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512 | wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
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513 |
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514 | ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
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515 |
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516 | ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
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517 | new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
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518 |
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519 | ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
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520 | <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
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521 |
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522 | ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
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523 |
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524 | ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
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525 | turn on mirroring options).
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526 |
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527 | ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
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528 |
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529 | ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
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530 |
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531 | ** A host of bugfixes.
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532 | |
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533 |
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534 | * Changes in Geturl 1.3
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535 |
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536 | ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
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537 |
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538 | ** Added support for no_proxy
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539 |
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540 | ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
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541 |
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542 | ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
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543 |
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544 | ** More natural command-line options
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545 |
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546 | ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
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547 |
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548 | ** Added support for robots.txt
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549 |
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550 | ** Fixed some minor bugs
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551 | |
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552 |
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553 | * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
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554 | |
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555 |
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556 | * Changes in Geturl 1.1
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557 |
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558 | ** REST supported in FTP
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559 |
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560 | ** Proxy servers supported
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561 |
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562 | ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
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563 | as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
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564 | geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
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565 |
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566 | ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
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567 |
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568 | ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
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569 |
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570 | ** <base href="xxx"> supported
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571 |
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572 | ** autoconf supported
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573 | |
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574 |
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575 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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576 | Copyright information:
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577 |
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578 | Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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579 |
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580 | Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim
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581 | copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that
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582 | the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus
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583 | giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.
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584 |
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585 | Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this
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586 | document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions,
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587 | provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last
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588 | changed them.
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