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- GNU Wget
- ========
- Current Web home: http://wget.sunsite.dk/
-
- GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
- the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
- retrieval through HTTP proxies.
-
- It can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote
- web sites, fully recreating the directory structure of the original
- site. This is sometimes referred to as "recursive downloading."
- While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard
- (/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in
- downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.
-
- Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a
- hierarchy of directories and files.
-
- With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has
- changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the
- newer files.
-
- Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
- connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will
- keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the server
- supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue the
- download from where it left off.
-
- If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style
- gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support
- for socks.
-
- Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line
- options, or via initialization file .wgetrc. Wget allows you to
- install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for
- site settings.
-
- Wget works under almost all Unix variants in use today and, unlike
- many of its historical predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus
- requiring no additional software, such as Perl. The external software
- it does work with, such as OpenSSL, is optional. As Wget uses the GNU
- Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to new Unix-like systems.
- The installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file.
-
- As with other GNU software, the latest version of Wget can be found at
- the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. Wget
- resides at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/>.
-
- Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.
-
- See the file `MAILING-LIST' for information about Wget mailing lists.
- Wget's home page is temporarily at <http://wget.sunsite.dk/>. It is
- being migrated to <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>, where will be
- its permanent home.
-
-
- MAINTAINER: Mauro Tortonesi <mauro@ferrara.linux.it>
-
- Wget was originally written by Hrvoje Niksic. Please see the file
- AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs for a
- detailed listing of all contributions.
-
-
- Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-
- This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
- it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
- (at your option) any later version.
-
- This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
- GNU General Public License for more details.
-
- You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
-
- In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation
- gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the
- OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
- that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
- the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
- in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you
- modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
- file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
- so, delete this exception statement from your version.
-