wget-1.6: description + notes
GNU Wget (wget) is a freely available network utility to retrieve
files from the World Wide Web, using HTTP (Hyper Text
Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol), the
two most widely used Internet protocols. It has many useful features
to make downloading easier, some of them being:
- Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the
background, while the user is not logged on.
- Wget is capable of descending recursively through the structure of
HTML documents and FTP directory trees, making a local copy of the
directory hierarchy similar to the one on the remote server.
- File name wildcard matching and recursive mirroring of directories
are available when retrieving via FTP. Wget can read the
time-stamp information given by both HTTP and FTP servers, and
store it locally.
- Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections.
- By default, Wget supports PROXY servers, which can lighten the
network load, speed up retrieval and provide access behind
firewalls.
- Builtin features offer mechanisms to tune which links you wish to
follow.
- The retrieval is conveniently traced with printing dots, each dot
representing a fixed amount of data received (1KB by default).
- Most of the features are fully configurable, either through
command line options, or via the initialization file `.wgetrc'.
Note: Although this version of wget is built without
socks support, you can specify a socksified proxy server
(by setting the http_proxy environment variable -- see
the "Proxies" section in the "Various" chapter of "info wget")
or use the fw_socks5 runsocks command.
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