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    1 GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
    2 
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    8 
    9 * Changes in Wget 1.11.4
   10 
   11 ** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to
   12 download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist.
   13 
   14 ** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the
   15 remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists
   16 locally with content.
   17 
   18 ** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long
   19 to a pointer-to-time_t.
   20 
   21 ** Translation updates for Catalan.
   22 
   23 * Changes in Wget 1.11.3
   24 
   25 ** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error.
   26 
   27 ** Translation updates
   28 
   29 * Changes in Wget 1.11.2
   30 
   31 ** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy.
   32 (Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.)
   33 
   34 ** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11,
   35 has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never
   36 meaningful, is still an error.)
   37 
   38 ** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales
   39 (too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll).
   40 
   41 ** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing
   42 and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace,
   43 information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files
   44 multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2.
   45 
   46 ** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs,
   47 for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents
   48 problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for
   49 FTP URLs only.
   50 
   51 * Changes in Wget 1.11.1.
   52 
   53 ** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file
   54 (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
   55 
   56 ** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a
   57 related assertion failure was fixed).
   58 
   59 ** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should
   60 know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2).
   61 
   62 ** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11
   63 authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be
   64 useful for some limited cases.
   65 
   66 ** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of
   67 Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may
   68 be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future.
   69 
   70 ** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or
   71 lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior.
   72 
   73 * Changes in Wget 1.11.
   74 
   75 ** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response,
   76 rather than the first one it got.
   77 
   78 ** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer
   79 header in recursive fetches.
   80 
   81 ** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued,
   82 for improved security. Authentication handling is still not
   83 RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will
   84 assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not
   85 just the ones at or below the original authenticated location.
   86 Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued
   87 automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource.
   88 
   89 ** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should
   90 be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow.
   91 
   92 ** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by
   93 the `Content-Disposition' header.  This is a standard way of specifying
   94 the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the
   95 current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is
   96 EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition
   97 to enable it.
   98 
   99 ** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when
  100 matching files, directories, and wildcards.  This affects the -X, -I,
  101 -A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs.
  102 
  103 ** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as
  104 in the default progress bar.  (The dot progress is used by default when
  105 logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.)
  106 
  107 ** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported.  It
  108 was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting.  If you're running
  109 broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify
  110 `--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them
  111 by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp.
  112 
  113 ** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are
  114 available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source
  115 code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can
  116 still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion
  117 repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/.
  118 
  119 * Changes in Wget 1.10.
  120 
  121 ** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large
  122 files", now works on systems that support them.  This includes the
  123 majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows.
  124 
  125 ** IPv6 is now supported by Wget.  Unlike the experimental code in
  126 1.9, this version supports dual-family systems.  The new flags
  127 `--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of
  128 IPv4 and IPv6 respectively.  Note that IPv6 support has not yet been
  129 tested on Windows.
  130 
  131 ** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now
  132 supported.  This authentication method is undocumented and only used
  133 by IIS.  Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this
  134 release; you can only authenticate to the target web site.
  135 
  136 ** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download
  137 has to start over because the server doesn't support Range.  Instead,
  138 with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte
  139 where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to
  140 the file.  That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download
  141 retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even
  142 when downloading to stdout.
  143 
  144 ** SSL/TLS changes:
  145 
  146 *** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate
  147 against the recognized certificate authorities.  This requires CA
  148 certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the
  149 OpenSSL library.  If this is not the case, you can get the bundle
  150 yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted
  151 from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html),
  152 and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate'
  153 command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command.
  154 
  155 *** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches
  156 the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server.
  157 
  158 *** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they
  159 unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with
  160 previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
  161 otherwise invalid certificates.  If you encounter "certificate
  162 verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match
  163 requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you
  164 can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks.
  165 
  166 *** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works.
  167 Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https
  168 URLs.  Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this
  169 purpose.
  170 
  171 *** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the
  172 first time, documented in the manual.  The old, undocumented, options
  173 are no longer supported.
  174 
  175 ** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode.  Use
  176 `--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to
  177 revert to the old behavior.
  178 
  179 ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated
  180 headers.  For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar"
  181 http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify
  182 "foo.bar" in the `Host' header.  In previous versions such use of
  183 `--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests.
  184 
  185 ** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are
  186 detected and handled.  Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is
  187 still occasionally used, sometimes by accident.
  188 
  189 ** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does
  190 not arrive from the network.
  191 
  192 ** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by
  193 default.  Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664",
  194 which might not be what the user wants.  The new option
  195 `--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can
  196 be used to revert to the old behavior.
  197 
  198 ** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use
  199 the protocol name as a directory component of local file names.
  200 
  201 ** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags
  202 are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or
  203 `--no-OPTION'.  Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have
  204 also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for
  205 backward compatibility.  For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can
  206 write `--no-glob'.
  207 
  208 Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around
  209 is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior
  210 specified via `.wgetrc'.
  211 
  212 ** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to
  213 save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the
  214 permanent ones.  This is useful because many sites track important
  215 information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session
  216 cookies.  With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single
  217 browser session.
  218 
  219 ** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command
  220 switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and
  221 --password command switches to set username and password for both FTP
  222 and HTTP.  The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have
  223 been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and
  224 the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to
  225 http_password and proxy_password respectively.  The login and passwd
  226 .wgetrc commands have been deprecated.
  227 
  228 * `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows.
  229 
  230 * Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  231 
  232 * Changes in Wget 1.9.
  233 
  234 ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP
  235 requests.  For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will
  236 send a POST request with the specified contents.
  237 
  238 ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental.
  239 
  240 ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing
  241 the TCP connection.  Previously it only affected reading and writing
  242 data.  Those three timeouts can be set separately using
  243 `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout',
  244 respectively.
  245 
  246 ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data
  247 recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download.
  248 The ETA projection is still based on the overall average.
  249 
  250 ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK
  251 firewalls.  Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically
  252 log on to the proxy as "username@host".
  253 
  254 ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads
  255 even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise
  256 considered a fatal error.
  257 
  258 ** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from
  259 caching DNS lookups.
  260 
  261 ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on
  262 whether they're appropriate in URLs.  Escaping can still occur for
  263 nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent
  264 characters such as space.  You can use the new option
  265 --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be
  266 useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to
  267 non-native partitions.
  268 
  269 ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what
  270 users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML
  271 declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->".
  272 Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior.
  273 
  274 ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such
  275 as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg".
  276 
  277 ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept
  278 values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off".
  279 
  280 ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting
  281 periods, and download rate.  For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as
  282 expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'.
  283 
  284 * Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  285 
  286 * Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  287 
  288 * Changes in Wget 1.8.
  289 
  290 ** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
  291 You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'.  Two
  292 types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
  293 dotted indicator).  You can permanently revert to the old progress
  294 indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
  295 
  296 ** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
  297 `--limit-rate' option.  For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
  298 tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
  299 per second.
  300 
  301 ** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
  302 
  303 *** Wget now traverses links breadth-first.  This makes the
  304 calculation of depth much more reliable than before.  Also, recursive
  305 downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
  306 before.
  307 
  308 *** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
  309 This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
  310 have been downloaded.
  311 
  312 *** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links.  Since Wget
  313 already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
  314 conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
  315 
  316 *** HTML anchors are now handled correctly.  Links to an anchor in the
  317 same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
  318 are now converted correctly.
  319 
  320 *** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
  321 retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
  322 to display the page.
  323 
  324 *** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames.  In other words,
  325 `wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
  326 and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
  327 
  328 ** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
  329 base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
  330 relative.
  331 
  332 ** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
  333 addresses when accessing the first one fails.
  334 
  335 ** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
  336 non-standard port.
  337 
  338 ** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
  339 <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
  340 
  341 ** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
  342 quoting.  Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
  343 no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'.  Unsafe characters
  344 which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
  345 
  346 ** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
  347 
  348 * Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  349 
  350 * Changes in Wget 1.7.
  351 
  352 ** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
  353 use the `--with-ssl' configure flag.  You need to have OpenSSL
  354 installed.
  355 
  356 ** Cookies are now supported.  Wget will accept cookies sent by the
  357 server and return them in later requests.  Additionally, it can load
  358 and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
  359 
  360 ** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
  361 Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
  362 many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
  363 stressing for the server and the network.
  364 
  365 ** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
  366 servers.
  367 
  368 ** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
  369 puts you in some directory other than '/'.
  370 
  371 ** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'.  For
  372 example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
  373 expect.
  374 
  375 ** The HTML parser has been rewritten.  The new one works more
  376 reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
  377 are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
  378 skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc.  It is
  379 also more general.
  380 
  381 ** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
  382 
  383 ** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
  384 where appropriate.  This results in huge speedups when retrieving
  385 large sites (thousands of documents).
  386 
  387 ** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
  388 documentation.  (The last version that shipped with a man page was
  389 1.4.5).  To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
  390 distribution installed on your system.
  391 
  392 * Changes in Wget 1.6
  393 
  394 ** Administrative changes.
  395 
  396 *** Maintainership.  Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job",
  397 Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a
  398 real job as well).  Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both
  399 are being helped by many other people.
  400 
  401 *** Web page.  Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page.
  402 Take a look at:
  403 
  404     http://sunsite.dk/wget/
  405 
  406 *** Anonymous CVS.  Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget
  407 sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server.  Take a look at
  408 the web page for downloading instructions.
  409 
  410 ** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files
  411 modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed.  When
  412 using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server.
  413 
  414 ** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict
  415 Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive
  416 retrieval.  -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the
  417 opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed.
  418 
  419 ** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries
  420 of failed downloads.  Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the
  421 first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS.  waitretry is set to 10 by
  422 default in the system wgetrc.
  423 
  424 ** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes
  425 Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML
  426 page properly (e.g. inlined images).
  427 
  428 ** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget
  429 to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp
  430 "\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?".
  431 
  432 ** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean".  Can be set to on, off,
  433 always, or never.  This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline.  So far,
  434 passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean.
  435 
  436 ** A number of new translation files have been added.
  437 
  438 ** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts 
  439 bound to multiple IP addresses.
  440 
  441 ** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects.
  442 
  443 * Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  444 
  445 * Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  446 
  447 * Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  448 
  449 * Changes in Wget 1.5.0
  450 
  451 ** Wget speaks many languages!
  452 
  453 On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language
  454 set by the current locale, if available.  At this time we support
  455 Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese.
  456 
  457 ** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP.
  458 
  459 ** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported.
  460 
  461 ** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically.
  462 
  463 ** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments.
  464 
  465 ** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for
  466 minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks.
  467 
  468 ** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to
  469 `wget-log'.
  470 
  471 ** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and
  472 passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'.
  473 
  474 ** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less
  475 directories.
  476 
  477 ** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized.  For
  478 instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in
  479 ASCII type transfer:
  480 
  481     wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a"
  482 
  483 ** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to to conform to
  484 standards set by other GNU utilities.
  485 
  486 ** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment.  MS
  487 Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully.
  488 
  489 ** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during
  490 download.
  491 
  492 ** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer
  493 distributed with Wget.
  494 
  495 * Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  496 
  497 * Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  498 
  499 * Changes in Wget 1.4.3
  500 
  501 ** Wget is now a GNU utility.
  502 
  503 ** Can do passive FTP.
  504 
  505 ** Reads .netrc.
  506 
  507 ** Info documentation expanded.
  508 
  509 ** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers.
  510 
  511 ** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir).
  512 
  513 ** Lots of bugfixes.
  514 
  515 * Changes in Wget 1.4.2
  516 
  517 ** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/,
  518 thanks to Karsten Thygesen.
  519 
  520 ** Mailing list!  Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe.
  521 
  522 ** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching.
  523 
  524 ** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain
  525 files.
  526 
  527 ** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server
  528 
  529 ** --convert-links should work now.
  530 
  531 ** Minor bugfixes.
  532 
  533 * Changes in Wget 1.4.1
  534 
  535 ** Minor bugfixes.
  536 
  537 ** Added -I (the opposite of -X).
  538 
  539 ** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary
  540 
  541 * Changes in Wget 1.4.0
  542 
  543 ** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of
  544 Geturl.  Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the
  545 stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly
  546 everything else.  Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and,
  547 most importantly, use.
  548 
  549 ** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location
  550 changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff.
  551 
  552 ** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range
  553 specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try
  554 wget http://user:password@hostname/
  555 
  556 ** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now
  557 work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the
  558 information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized.
  559 
  560 ** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g.
  561     wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/
  562 
  563 ** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to
  564 enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub
  565 
  566 ** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL.
  567 
  568 ** A new texinfo reference manual is provided.  It can be read with
  569 Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript.
  570 
  571 ** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP
  572 connections.
  573 
  574 ** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by
  575 default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of
  576 course :-)
  577 
  578 ** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much
  579 data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your
  580 sysadmin to like you).
  581 
  582 ** Download rate is printed after retrieval.
  583 
  584 ** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving
  585 recursively.
  586 
  587 ** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively
  588 through a proxy server.
  589 
  590 ** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much
  591 faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both).
  592 
  593 ** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check
  594 wget -k.
  595 
  596 ** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and
  597 resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget.
  598 
  599 ** User-defined headers can be sent.  Try
  600 
  601     wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2'
  602 
  603 ** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards.
  604 
  605 ** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the
  606 new `-S' option.  It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'.
  607 
  608 ** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella
  609 <Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks.
  610 
  611 ** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output.
  612 
  613 ** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to
  614 turn on mirroring options).
  615 
  616 ** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL).
  617 
  618 ** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-)
  619 
  620 ** A host of bugfixes.
  621 
  622 * Changes in Geturl 1.3
  623 
  624 ** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*)
  625 
  626 ** Added support for no_proxy
  627 
  628 ** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/
  629 
  630 ** Added support for %xx in URL syntax
  631 
  632 ** More natural command-line options
  633 
  634 ** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line
  635 
  636 ** Added support for robots.txt
  637 
  638 ** Fixed some minor bugs
  639 
  640 * Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
  641 
  642 * Changes in Geturl 1.1
  643 
  644 ** REST supported in FTP
  645 
  646 ** Proxy servers supported
  647 
  648 ** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered
  649 as you wish, e.g.  geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as
  650 geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/
  651 
  652 ** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file
  653 
  654 ** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file
  655 
  656 ** <base href="xxx"> supported
  657 
  658 ** autoconf supported
  659 
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