1GNU Wget NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2 3Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 42006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 5See the end for copying conditions. 6 7Please send GNU Wget bug reports to <bug-wget@gnu.org>. 8 9* Changes in Wget 1.16 10 11** No longer create local symbolic links by default. Closes CVE-2014-4877. 12 13** Use libpsl for verifying cookie domains. 14 15** Default progress bar output changed. 16 17** Introduce --show-progress to force display the progress bar. 18 19** Introduce --no-config. The wgetrc files will not be read. 20 21** Introduce --start-pos to allow starting downloads from a specified position. 22 23** Fix a problem with ISA Server Proxy and keep-alive connections. 24 25* Changes in Wget 1.15 26 27** Add support for --method. 28 29** Add support for file names longer than MAX_FILE. 30 31** Support FTP listing for the FTP Server on Windows Server 2008 R2. 32 33** Fix a regression when -c and --content-disposition are used together. 34 35** Support shorthand URLs in an input file. 36 37** Fix -c with servers that don't specify a content-length. 38 39** Add support for MD5-SESS 40 41** Do not fail on non fatal GNU TLS alerts during handshake. 42 43** Add support for --https-only. When used wget will follow only 44 HTTPS links in recursive mode. 45 46** Support Perfect-Forward Secrecy in --secure-protocol. 47 48** Fix a problem with some IRI links that are not followed when contained in a 49 HTML document. 50 51** Support some FTP servers that return an empty list with "LIST -a". 52 53** Specify Host with the HTTP CONNECT method. 54 55** Use the correct HTTP method on a redirection. 56 57* Changes in Wget 1.14 58 59** Add support for content-on-error. It allows to store the HTTP 60 payload on 4xx or 5xx errors. 61 62** Add support for WARC files. 63 64** Fix a memory leak problem in the GNU TLS backend. 65 66** Autoreconf works again for distributed tarballs. 67 68** Print some diagnostic messages to stderr not to stdout. 69 70** Report stdout close errors. 71 72** Accept the --report-speed option. 73 74** Enable client certificates when GNU TLS is used. 75 76** Add support for TLS Server Name Indication. 77 78** Accept the arguments --accept-reject and --reject-regex. 79 80** The GNU TLS backend honors correctly the timeout value. 81 82** Add support for RFC 2617 Digest Access Authentication. 83 84* Changes in Wget 1.13.4 85 86** Now --version and --help work again. 87 88** Fix a build error on solaris 10 sparc. 89 90** Now --timestamping and --continue work well together. 91 92** Return a network failure when FTP downloads fail and --timestamping 93 is specified. 94 95** Fix a segfault on an incomplete STYLE tag. 96 97* Changes in Wget 1.13.3 98 99** Support HTTP/1.1 100 101** Now by default the GNU TLS library for secure connections, instead of 102 OpenSSL. 103 104** Fix some portability issues. 105 106** Handle properly malformed status line in a HTTP response. 107 108** Ignore zero length domains in $no_proxy. 109 110** Set new cookies after an authorization failure. 111 112** Exit with failure if -k is specified and -O is not a regular file. 113 114** Cope better with unclosed html tags. 115 116** Print diagnostic messages to stderr, not stdout. 117 118** Do not use an additional HEAD request when --content-disposition is used, 119 but use directly GET. 120 121** Report the average transfer speed correctly when multiple URL's are specified 122 and -c influences the transferred data amount. 123 124** GNU TLS backend works again. 125 126** Now --timestamping and --continue works well together. 127 128** By default, on server redirects, use the original URL to get the 129 local file name. Close CVE-2010-2252. This introduces a 130 backward-incompatibility; any script that relies on the old 131 behaviour must use --trust-server-names. 132 133** Fix a problem when -k is used and some URLs are specified trough 134 CSS. 135 136** Convert correctly URLs that need to be encoded to local files when following 137 links. 138 139** Use persistent connections with proxies supporting them. 140 141** Print the total download time as part of the summary for recursive downloads. 142 143** Now it is possible to specify a different startup configuration file trough 144 the --config option. 145 146** Fix an infinite loop with the error '<filename> has sprung into existence' 147 on a network error and -nc is used. 148 149** Now --adjust-extension does not modify the file extension if the file ends 150 in .htm. 151 152** Support HTTP/1.1 307 redirects keep request method. 153 154** Now --no-parent doesn't fetch undesired files if HTTP and HTTPS are used 155 by the same host on different pages. 156 157** Do not attempt to remove the file if it is not in the accept rules but 158 it is the output destination file. 159 160** Introduce `show_all_dns_entries' to print all IP addresses corresponding to 161 a DNS name when it is resolved. 162 163* Changes in Wget 1.12 164 165** Mailing list MOVED to bug-wget@gnu.org 166 167** SECURITY FIX: It had been possible to trick Wget into accepting 168SSL certificates that don't match the host name, through the trick of 169embedding NUL characters into the certs' common name. Fixed by Joao 170Ferreira <joao@joaoff.com>. 171 172** Added support for CSS. This includes: 173 - Parsing links from CSS files, and from CSS content found in HTML 174 style tags and attributes. 175 - Supporting conversion of links found within CSS content, when 176 --convert-links is specified. 177 - Ensuring that CSS files end in the ".css" filename extension, 178 when --convert-links is specified. 179 180 CSS support in Wget is thanks to Ted Mielczarek 181 <ted.mielczarek@gmail.com>. 182 183** Added support for Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs, RFC 1843987). When support is enabled (requires libidn and libiconv), links 185with non-ASCII bytes are translated from their source encoding to UTF-8 186before percent-encoding. IRI support was added by Saint Xavier 187<wget@sxav.eu>, as his project for the Google Summer of Code. 188 189** Wget now provides more sensible exit status codes when downloads 190don't proceed as expected (see the manual). 191 192** --default-page option (and associated wgetrc command) added to 193support alternative default names for index.html. 194 195** --ask-password option (and associated wgetrc command) added to 196support password prompts at the console. 197 198** The --input-file option now also handles retrieving links from 199an external file. 200 201** The output generated by the --version option now includes 202information on how it was built, and the set of configure-time options 203that were selected. 204 205** --html-extension has been renamed to --adjust-extension, to reflect 206the fact that it now also applies to CSS content. --html-extension is 207still acceptable, but is now deprecated. 208 209** An "ascii" specifier is now accepted by --restrict-file-names, which 210forces the percent-encoding of all non-ASCII bytes 211 212** Several previously existing, but undocumented .wgetrc options are 213now documented: save_headers, spider, and user_agent, 214auth_no_challenge, and keep_session_cookies. Also added documentation 215for the "lowercase" and "uppercase" values for --restrict-file-names, which had been present since Wget 1.11. 216 217* Changes in Wget 1.11.4 218 219** Fixed an issue (apparently a regression) where -O would refuse to 220download when -nc was given, even though the file didn't exist. 221 222** Fixed a situation where Wget could abort with --continue if the 223remote server gives a content-length of zero when the file exists 224locally with content. 225 226** Fixed a crash on some systems, due to Wget casting a pointer-to-long 227to a pointer-to-time_t. 228 229** Translation updates for Catalan. 230 231* Changes in Wget 1.11.3 232 233** Downgraded -N with -O to a warning, rather than an error. 234 235** Translation updates 236 237* Changes in Wget 1.11.2 238 239** Fixed a problem in authenticating over HTTPS through a proxy. 240(Regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2.) 241 242** The combination of -r or -p with -O, which was disallowed in 1.11, 243has been downgraded to a warning in 1.11.2. (-O and -N, which was never 244meaningful, is still an error.) 245 246** Further improvements to progress bar displays in non-English locales 247(too many spaces could be inserted, causing the display to scroll). 248 249** Successive invocations of Wget on FTP URLS, with --no-remove-listing 250and --continue, was causing Wget to append, rather than replace, 251information in the .listing file, and thereby download the same files 252multiple times. This has been fixed in 1.11.2. 253 254** Wget 1.11 no longer allowed ".." to persist at the beginning of URLs, 255for improved conformance with RFC 3986. However, this behavior presents 256problems for some FTP setups, and so they are now preserved again, for 257FTP URLs only. 258 259* Changes in Wget 1.11.1. 260 261** Interrupted downloads no longer result in renaming the file 262(regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). 263 264** Progress bar now displays correctly in non-English locales (and a 265related assertion failure was fixed). 266 267** Wget no longer issues a GET request over HTTP for files it should 268know it's not going to download (regression in 1.11 over 1.10.2). 269 270** Added option --auth-no-challenge, to support broken pre-1.11 271authentication-before-server-challenge, which turns out to still be 272useful for some limited cases. 273 274** Documentation of accept/reject lists in the manual's "Types of 275Files" section now explains various aspects of their behavior that may 276be surprising, and notes that they may change in the future. 277 278** Documentation of --no-parents now explains how a trailing slash, or 279lack thereof, in the specified URL, will affect behavior. 280 281* Changes in Wget 1.11. 282 283** Timestamping now uses the value from the most recent HTTP response, 284rather than the first one it got. 285 286** Authentication information is no longer sent as part of the Referer 287header in recursive fetches. 288 289** No authentication credentials are sent until a challenge is issued, 290for improved security. Authentication handling is still not 291RFC-compliant, as once a Basic challenge has been received, it will 292assume it can send credentials to any URL at that same host, and not 293just the ones at or below the original authenticated location. 294Credentials for Digest authentication are still never saved or issued 295automatically, and continue to require a challenge for each resource. 296 297** Added --max-redirect option, allowing the user to specify what should 298be the maximum number of HTTP redirects to follow. 299 300** Wget now supports saving HTTP downloads using file names specified by 301the `Content-Disposition' header. This is a standard way of specifying 302the file name used by many web dynamically generated pages. However, the 303current implementation is inefficient, and known to have bugs. It is 304EXPERIMENTAL only, and not enabled by default. Use --content-disposition 305to enable it. 306 307** The new option `--ignore-case' makes Wget ignore case when 308matching files, directories, and wildcards. This affects the -X, -I, 309-A, and -R options, as well as globbing in FTP URLs. 310 311** ETA projection is now displayed in "dot" progress output as well as 312in the default progress bar. (The dot progress is used by default when 313logging Wget's output to file using the `-o' option.) 314 315** The "lockable boolean" argument type is no longer supported. It 316was only used by the passive_ftp .wgetrc setting. If you're running 317broken scripts or Perl modules that unconditionally specify 318`--passive-ftp' and your firewall disallows it, you can override them 319by replacing wget with a script that execs wget "$@" --no-passive-ftp. 320 321** The source code has been migrated to Mercurial. The repositories are 322available at http://hg.addictivecode.org/. Prior to this, the source 323code was hosted on Subversion (migrated from the original CVS); you can 324still get access to older tags and branches for Wget in the Subversion 325repository at http://addictivecode.org/svn/wget/. 326 327* Changes in Wget 1.10. 328 329** Downloading files larger than 2GB, sometimes referred to as "large 330files", now works on systems that support them. This includes the 331majority of modern Unixes, as well as MS Windows. 332 333** IPv6 is now supported by Wget. Unlike the experimental code in 3341.9, this version supports dual-family systems. The new flags 335`--inet4' and `--inet6' (or `-4' and `-6' for short) force the use of 336IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. Note that IPv6 support has not yet been 337tested on Windows. 338 339** Microsoft's proprietary "NTLM" method of HTTP authentication is now 340supported. This authentication method is undocumented and only used 341by IIS. Note that *proxy* authentication is not supported in this 342release; you can only authenticate to the target web site. 343 344** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download 345has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead, 346with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte 347where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to 348the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and download 349retries from servers without support for partial downloads work even 350when downloading to stdout. 351 352** SSL/TLS changes: 353 354*** SSL/TLS downloads now attempt to verify the server's certificate 355against the recognized certificate authorities. This requires CA 356certificates to have been installed in a location visible to the 357OpenSSL library. If this is not the case, you can get the bundle 358yourself from a source you trust (for example, the bundle extracted 359from Mozilla available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html), 360and point Wget to the PEM file using the `--ca-certificate' 361command-line option or the corresponding `.wgetrc' command. 362 363*** Secure downloads now verify that the host name in the URL matches 364the "common name" in the certificate presented by the server. 365 366*** Although the above checks provide more secure downloads, they 367unavoidably break interoperability with some sites that worked with 368previous versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or 369otherwise invalid certificates. If you encounter "certificate 370verification" errors or complaints that "common name doesn't match 371requested host name" and are convinced of the site's authenticity, you 372can use `--no-check-certificate' to bypass both checks. 373 374*** Talking to SSL/TLS servers over proxies now actually works. 375Previous versions of Wget erroneously sent GET requests for https 376URLs. Wget 1.10 utilizes the CONNECT method designed for this 377purpose. 378 379*** The SSL/TLS-related options have been redesigned and, for the 380first time, documented in the manual. The old, undocumented, options 381are no longer supported. 382 383** Passive FTP is now the default FTP transfer mode. Use 384`--no-passive-ftp' or specify `passive_ftp = off' in your init file to 385revert to the old behavior. 386 387** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated 388headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar" 389http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify 390"foo.bar" in the `Host' header. In previous versions such use of 391`--header' lead to duplicate headers in HTTP requests. 392 393** The responses without headers, aka "HTTP 0.9" responses, are 394detected and handled. Although HTTP 0.9 has long been obsolete, it is 395still occasionally used, sometimes by accident. 396 397** The progress bar is now updated regularly even when the data does 398not arrive from the network. 399 400** Wget no longer preserves permissions of files retrieved by FTP by 401default. Anonymous FTP servers frequently use permissions like "664", 402which might not be what the user wants. The new option 403`--preserve-permissions' and the corresponding `.wgetrc' variable can 404be used to revert to the old behavior. 405 406** The new option `--protocol-directories' instructs Wget to also use 407the protocol name as a directory component of local file names. 408 409** Options that previously unconditionally set or unset various flags 410are now boolean options that can be invoked as either `--OPTION' or 411`--no-OPTION'. Options that required an argument "on" or "off" have 412also been changed this way, but they still accept the old syntax for 413backward compatibility. For example, instead of `--glob=off' you can 414write `--no-glob'. 415 416Allowing `--no-OPTION' for every `--OPTION' and the other way around 417is useful because it allows the user to override non-default behavior 418specified via `.wgetrc'. 419 420** The new option `--keep-session-cookies' causes `--save-cookies' to 421save session cookies (normally only kept in memory) along with the 422permanent ones. This is useful because many sites track important 423information, such as whether the user has authenticated, in session 424cookies. With this option multiple Wget runs are treated as a single 425browser session. 426 427** Wget now supports the --ftp-user and --ftp-password command 428switches to set username and password for FTP, and the --user and 429--password command switches to set username and password for both FTP 430and HTTP. The --http-passwd and --proxy-passwd command switches have 431been renamed to --http-password and --proxy-password respectively, and 432the related http_passwd and proxy_passwd .wgetrc commands to 433http_password and proxy_password respectively. The login and passwd 434.wgetrc commands have been deprecated. 435 436* `wget -b' now works correctly under Windows. 437 438* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 439 440* Changes in Wget 1.9. 441 442** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP 443requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will 444send a POST request with the specified contents. 445 446** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental. 447 448** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing 449the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing 450data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using 451`--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout', 452respectively. 453 454** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data 455recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download. 456The ETA projection is still based on the overall average. 457 458** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK 459firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically 460log on to the proxy as "username@host". 461 462** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads 463even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise 464considered a fatal error. 465 466** The new option `--no-dns-cache' may be used to prevent Wget from 467caching DNS lookups. 468 469** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on 470whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for 471nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent 472characters such as space. You can use the new option 473--restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be 474useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to 475non-native partitions. 476 477** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what 478users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML 479declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->". 480Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior. 481 482** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such 483as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg". 484 485** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept 486values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off". 487 488** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting 489periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as 490expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'. 491 492* Wget 1.8.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 493 494* Wget 1.8.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 495 496* Changes in Wget 1.8. 497 498** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default. 499You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two 500types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old 501dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress 502indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'. 503 504** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the 505`--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will 506tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes 507per second. 508 509** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped: 510 511*** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the 512calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive 513downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than 514before. 515 516*** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete. 517This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs 518have been downloaded. 519 520*** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget 521already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link 522conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string. 523 524*** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the 525same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget, 526are now converted correctly. 527 528*** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when 529retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed 530to display the page. 531 532*** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words, 533`wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files, 534and all the files that they need to be displayed properly. 535 536** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a 537base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be 538relative. 539 540** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other 541addresses when accessing the first one fails. 542 543** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a 544non-standard port. 545 546** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in 547<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>. 548 549** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous 550quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is 551no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters 552which are not reserved are still escaped, of course. 553 554** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed. 555 556* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 557 558* Changes in Wget 1.7. 559 560** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support; 561use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL 562installed. 563 564** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the 565server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load 566and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses. 567 568** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported. 569Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for 570many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less 571stressing for the server and the network. 572 573** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS 574servers. 575 576** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in 577puts you in some directory other than '/'. 578 579** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For 580example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would 581expect. 582 583** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more 584reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes 585are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly 586skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is 587also more general. 588 589** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected. 590 591** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists 592where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving 593large sites (thousands of documents). 594 595** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo 596documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was 5971.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl 598distribution installed on your system. 599 600* Changes in Wget 1.6 601 602** Administrative changes. 603 604*** Maintainership. Due to Hrvoje being plagued with a "real job", 605Dan Harkless is the most active maintainer (not that he doesn't have a 606real job as well). Hrvoje still participates occasionally, and both 607are being helped by many other people. 608 609*** Web page. Thanks to Jan Prikryl, Wget has an "official" web page. 610Take a look at: 611 612 http://sunsite.dk/wget/ 613 614*** Anonymous CVS. Thanks to ever-helpful Karsten Thygesen, Wget 615sources are now available at an anonymous CVS server. Take a look at 616the web page for downloading instructions. 617 618** New -K / --backup-converted / backup_converted = on option causes files 619modified due to -k to be saved with a .orig prefix before being changed. When 620using -N as well, it is these .orig files that are compared against the server. 621 622** New --follow-tags / follow_tags = ... option allows you to restrict 623Wget to following only certain HTML tags when doing a recursive 624retrieval. -G / --ignore-tags / ignore_tags = ... is just the 625opposite -- all tags but the ones you specify will be followed. 626 627** New --waitretry / waitretry = SECONDS option allows waiting between retries 628of failed downloads. Wget will use "linear" backoff, waiting 1 second after the 629first failure, 2 after the second, up to SECONDS. waitretry is set to 10 by 630default in the system wgetrc. 631 632** New -p / --page-requisites / page_requisites = on option causes 633Wget to download all ancillary files necessary to display a given HTML 634page properly (e.g. inlined images). 635 636** New -E / --html-extension / html_extension = on option causes Wget 637to append ".html" to text/html filenames not ending in regexp 638"\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?". 639 640** New type of .wgetrc command -- "lockable Boolean". Can be set to on, off, 641always, or never. This allows the .wgetrc to override the commandline. So far, 642passive_ftp is the only .wgetrc command which takes a lockable Boolean. 643 644** A number of new translation files have been added. 645 646** New --bind-address / bind_address = <address> option for people on hosts 647bound to multiple IP addresses. 648 649** wget now accepts (illegal per HTTP spec) relative URLs in HTTP redirects. 650 651* Wget 1.5.3 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 652 653* Wget 1.5.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 654 655* Wget 1.5.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 656 657* Changes in Wget 1.5.0 658 659** Wget speaks many languages! 660 661On systems with gettext(), Wget will output messages in the language 662set by the current locale, if available. At this time we support 663Czech, German, Croatian, Italian, Norwegian and Portuguese. 664 665** Opie (Skey) is now supported with FTP. 666 667** HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC2069) is now supported. 668 669** The new `-b' option makes Wget go to background automatically. 670 671** The `-I' and `-X' options now accept wildcard arguments. 672 673** The `-w' option now accepts suffixes `s' for seconds, `m' for 674minutes, `h' for hours, `d' for days and `w' for weeks. 675 676** Upon getting SIGHUP, the whole previous log is now copied to 677`wget-log'. 678 679** Wget now understands proxy settings with explicit usernames and 680passwords, e.g. `http://user:password@proxy.foo.com/'. 681 682** You can use the new `--cut-dirs' option to make Wget create less 683directories. 684 685** The `;type=a' appendix to FTP URLs is now recognized. For 686instance, the following command will retrieve the welcoming message in 687ASCII type transfer: 688 689 wget "ftp://ftp.somewhere.com/welcome.msg;type=a" 690 691** `--help' and `--version' options have been redone to conform to 692standards set by other GNU utilities. 693 694** Wget should now be compilable under MS Windows environment. MS 695Visual C++ and Watcom C have been used successfully. 696 697** If the file length is known, percentages are displayed during 698download. 699 700** The manual page, now hopelessly out of date, is no longer 701distributed with Wget. 702 703* Wget 1.4.5 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 704 705* Wget 1.4.4 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 706 707* Changes in Wget 1.4.3 708 709** Wget is now a GNU utility. 710 711** Can do passive FTP. 712 713** Reads .netrc. 714 715** Info documentation expanded. 716 717** Compiles on pre-ANSI compilers. 718 719** Global wgetrc now goes to /usr/local/etc (i.e. $sysconfdir). 720 721** Lots of bugfixes. 722 723* Changes in Wget 1.4.2 724 725** New mirror site at ftp://sunsite.auc.dk/pub/infosystems/wget/, 726thanks to Karsten Thygesen. 727 728** Mailing list! Mail to wget-request@sunsite.auc.dk to subscribe. 729 730** New option --delete-after for proxy prefetching. 731 732** New option --retr-symlinks to retrieve symbolic links like plain 733files. 734 735** rmold.pl -- script to remove files deleted on the remote server 736 737** --convert-links should work now. 738 739** Minor bugfixes. 740 741* Changes in Wget 1.4.1 742 743** Minor bugfixes. 744 745** Added -I (the opposite of -X). 746 747** Dot tracing is now customizable; try wget --dot-style=binary 748 749* Changes in Wget 1.4.0 750 751** Wget 1.4.0 [formerly known as Geturl] is an extensive rewrite of 752Geturl. Although many things look suspiciously similar, most of the 753stuff was rewritten, like recursive retrieval, HTTP, FTP and mostly 754everything else. Wget should be now easier to debug, maintain and, 755most importantly, use. 756 757** Recursive HTTP should now work without glitches, even with Location 758changes, server-generated directory listings and other naughty stuff. 759 760** HTTP regetting is supported on servers that support Range 761specification. WWW authorization is supported -- try 762wget http://user:password@hostname/ 763 764** FTP support was rewritten and widely enhanced. Globbing should now 765work flawlessly. Symbolic links are created locally. All the 766information the Unix-style ls listing can give is now recognized. 767 768** Recursive FTP is supported, e.g. 769 wget -r ftp://gnjilux.cc.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/ 770 771** You can specify "rejected" directories, to which you do not want to 772enter, e.g. with wget -X /pub 773 774** Time-stamping is supported, with both HTTP and FTP. Try wget -N URL. 775 776** A new texinfo reference manual is provided. It can be read with 777Emacs, standalone info, or converted to HTML, dvi or postscript. 778 779** Fixed a long-standing bug, so that Wget now works over SLIP 780connections. 781 782** You can have a system-wide wgetrc (/usr/local/lib/wgetrc by 783default). Settings in $HOME/.wgetrc override the global ones, of 784course :-) 785 786** You can set up quota in .wgetrc to prevent sucking too much 787data. Try `quota = 5M' in .wgetrc (or quota = 100K if you want your 788sysadmin to like you). 789 790** Download rate is printed after retrieval. 791 792** Wget now sends the `Referer' header when retrieving 793recursively. 794 795** With the new --no-parent option Wget can retrieve FTP recursively 796through a proxy server. 797 798** HTML parser, as well as the whole of Wget was rewritten to be much 799faster and less memory-consuming (yes, both). 800 801** Absolute links can be converted to relative links locally. Check 802wget -k. 803 804** Wget catches hangup, filtering the output to a log file and 805resuming work. Try kill -HUP %?wget. 806 807** User-defined headers can be sent. Try 808 809 wget http://fly.cc.her.hr/ --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2' 810 811** Acceptance/Rejection lists may contain wildcards. 812 813** Wget can display HTTP headers and/or FTP server response with the 814new `-S' option. It can save the original HTTP headers with `-s'. 815 816** socks library is now supported (thanks to Antonio Rosella 817<Antonio.Rosella@agip.it>). Configure with --with-socks. 818 819** There is a nicer display of REST-ed output. 820 821** Many new options (like -x to force directory hierarchy, or -m to 822turn on mirroring options). 823 824** Wget is now distributed under GNU General Public License (GPL). 825 826** Lots of small features I can't remember. :-) 827 828** A host of bugfixes. 829 830* Changes in Geturl 1.3 831 832** Added FTP globbing support (ftp://fly.cc.fer.hr/*) 833 834** Added support for no_proxy 835 836** Added support for ftp://user:password@host/ 837 838** Added support for %xx in URL syntax 839 840** More natural command-line options 841 842** Added -e switch to execute .geturlrc commands from the command-line 843 844** Added support for robots.txt 845 846** Fixed some minor bugs 847 848* Geturl 1.2 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes. 849 850* Changes in Geturl 1.1 851 852** REST supported in FTP 853 854** Proxy servers supported 855 856** GNU getopt used, which enables command-line arguments to be ordered 857as you wish, e.g. geturl http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ -vo log is the same as 858geturl -vo log http://fly.cc.fer.hr/ 859 860** Netscape-compatible URL syntax for HTTP supported: host[:port]/dir/file 861 862** NcFTP-compatible colon URL syntax for FTP supported: host:/dir/file 863 864** <base href="xxx"> supported 865 866** autoconf supported 867 868---------------------------------------------------------------------- 869Copyright information: 870 871Copyright (C) 1997-2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 872 873 Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim 874 copies of this document as received, in any medium, provided that 875 the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved, thus 876 giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn. 877 878 Permission is granted to distribute modified versions of this 879 document, or of portions of it, under the above conditions, 880 provided also that they carry prominent notices stating who last 881 changed them. 882