GNU Wget - Summary
This software 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 darnir, Sat 09 Jan 2021 10:36:13 AM UTC
Noteworthy changes in this release:
- Fix compilation on MacOS and Solaris 9
- Remove bashism from configure.ac
- Fix a compilation warning on 32-bit systems
posted by darnir, Sat 09 Jan 2021 10:34:43 AM UTC
Noteworthy changes in this release:
- Improve the number of translated strings
- Remove all uses of alloca. In some places the length of untrusted strings has been used, e.g. strings from the command line or from remote.
- Fix buffer overflows in progress bar code in some locales
posted by darnir, Fri 30 Nov 2018 12:14:38 AM UTC
Noteworthy Changes in this release:
- Add new option `--retry-on-host-error` to treat local errors as transient and hence Wget will retry to download the file after a brief waiting period.
- Fixed multiple potential resource leaks as found by static analysis
posted by gscrivano, Thu 09 Jun 2016 04:33:15 PM UTC
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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