GNU Wget - Summary
This project is part of the GNU Project.
GNU wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive command-line tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X Window System support, etc.
GNU wget has many features to make retrieving large files or mirroring entire web or FTP sites easy, including:
* Can resume aborted downloads, using REST and RANGE
* Can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories
* NLS-based message files for many different languages
* Optionally converts absolute links in downloaded documents to relative, so that downloaded documents may link to each other locally
* Runs on most UNIX-like operating systems as well as Microsoft Windows
* Supports HTTP proxies
* Supports HTTP cookies
* Supports persistent HTTP connections
* Unattended / background operation
* Uses local file timestamps to determine whether documents need to be re-downloaded when mirroring
Development / Contribution
A description on how to get the latest sources is here: https://savannah.gnu.org/git/?group=wget
Registration Date: Fri 05 Nov 2004 02:24:50 AM UTC
License: GNU General Public License v3 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable
posted by gscrivano, Thu 09 Jun 2016 04:33:15 PM UTC - 0 replies
Noteworthy changes
- By default, on server redirects to a FTP resource, use the original URL to get the local file name. Close CVE-2016-4971. This introduces a backward-incompatibility for HTTP->FTP redirects and
any script that relies on the old behaviour must use --trust-server-names.
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posted by gscrivano, Fri 11 Dec 2015 07:20:08 PM UTC - 0 replies
Noteworthy changes:
- Fix compile error when IPv6 is disabled or SSL is not present.
- Fix HSTS memory leak.
- Fix progress output in non-C locales.
- Fix SIGSEGV when -N and --content-disposition are used together.
- Add --check-certificate=quiet to tell wget to not print any warning about invalid certificates.
posted by gscrivano, Sun 15 Nov 2015 03:12:08 PM UTC - 0 replies
- Remove FTP passive to active fallback due to privacy concerns.
- Add support for --if-modified-since.
- Add support for metalink through --input-metalink and --metalink-over-http.
- Add support for HSTS through --hsts and --hsts-file. ...
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posted by gscrivano, Mon 09 Mar 2015 10:03:18 AM UTC - 0 replies
Noteworthy changes in Wget 1.16.3
Fix a regression introduced with 1.16.2, now --quiet is quiet again and doesn't print anything.
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