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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/ChangeLog | 86 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/Makefile.in | 214 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sample.wgetrc | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion | 11 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/stamp-vti | 8 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | doc/texi2pod.pl | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/version.texi | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/wget.info | 3132 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/wget.texi | 135 |
9 files changed, 1970 insertions, 1637 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index df76c53..58d1439 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,89 @@ +2013-12-29 Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivan@redhat.com> + + * wget.texi: Update to GFDL 1.3. + +2013-12-22 Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> + + * sample.wgetrc: add links to the manual. + +2013-10-06 Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> + + * wget.texi: add/explain quoting of wildcard patterns + +2013-09-04 Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> + + * sample.wgetrc: added "secureprotocol" example + * wget.texi (HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options): Document PFS. + +2013-08-23 Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> + + * sample.wgetrc: added "httpsonly" example + +2013-08-22 Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> + + * wget.texi: added description for --https-only + +2013-08-13 Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org> + + * wget.texi (Download Options): Fix misspelling. + +2013-07-09 Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> + + * wget.texi (Download Options): Add documentation for --backups. + (Wgetrc Commands): Add documentation for backups. + Reported by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>. + +2013-07-11 Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com> + + * wget.texi: Document --regex-type and --preserve-permissions. + +2013-06-17 Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org> (tiny change) + + * texi2pod.pl: Fix formatting error that causes build to fail with + Perl 5.18 + +2013-06-17 Darshit Shah <darnir@gmail.com> + + * wget.texi (POST): Explain the new redirection rules. + * wget.texi (Other HTTP Methods): Same. + * wget.texi (body-data): Fix typo in description. + +2013-05-10 Darshit Shah <darnir@gmail.com> (tiny change) + + * wget.texi (No of tries): Fix typo to make it clear that --tries + option sets number of tries not retries. + Reported by: Hauke Hoffman <haukebjoernhoffman@googlemail.com> + +2013-04-28 Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> + + * wget.texi (Types of Files...): Document --accept-regex, + --reject-regex. + Reported by: Tomas Hozza <thozza@redhat.com>. + +2013-04-14 Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano@gnu.org> + + * wget.texi (Download Options): Document "mega" dot style. + +2013-04-05 Darshit Shah <darnir@gmail.com> + + * doc/wget.texi: Fix ambiguous wording in --post-data section. Make it + clear that wget does not check for the format of the post-data. + * doc/wget.texi: Add documentation for --method, --body-data and + --body-file. + +2012-10-08 Stefano Lattarini <stefano.lattarini@gmail.com> (tiny change) + + docs: fix errors and warnings with Texinfo 5 + Or rather, with the development version 4.13.90, which will + eventually become Texinfo 5.0. + * wget.texi: Use '@item' instead of '@itemx' in several places, + as Texinfo 5 refuses to process an '@itemx' that is not preceded + by an '@item'. + +2012-08-28 Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de> + + * doc/wget.texi: remove -nv from --report-speed + 2012-08-04 mancha <mancha@mac.hush.com> (tiny change) * wget.texi: Export ENVIRONMENT to the man page. diff --git a/doc/Makefile.in b/doc/Makefile.in index b50382b..cf90569 100644 --- a/doc/Makefile.in +++ b/doc/Makefile.in @@ -1,9 +1,8 @@ -# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.11.6 from Makefile.am. +# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.13.4 from Makefile.am. # @configure_input@ -# Copyright (C) 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, -# 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software -# Foundation, Inc. +# Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. + # This Makefile.in is free software; the Free Software Foundation # gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it, # with or without modifications, as long as this notice is preserved. @@ -36,23 +35,51 @@ # Version: @VERSION@ # VPATH = @srcdir@ -am__make_dryrun = \ - { \ - am__dry=no; \ +am__is_gnu_make = test -n '$(MAKEFILE_LIST)' && test -n '$(MAKELEVEL)' +am__make_running_with_option = \ + case $${target_option-} in \ + ?) ;; \ + *) echo "am__make_running_with_option: internal error: invalid" \ + "target option '$${target_option-}' specified" >&2; \ + exit 1;; \ + esac; \ + has_opt=no; \ + sane_makeflags=$$MAKEFLAGS; \ + if $(am__is_gnu_make); then \ + sane_makeflags=$$MFLAGS; \ + else \ case $$MAKEFLAGS in \ *\\[\ \ ]*) \ - echo 'am--echo: ; @echo "AM" OK' | $(MAKE) -f - 2>/dev/null \ - | grep '^AM OK$$' >/dev/null || am__dry=yes;; \ - *) \ - for am__flg in $$MAKEFLAGS; do \ - case $$am__flg in \ - *=*|--*) ;; \ - *n*) am__dry=yes; break;; \ - esac; \ - done;; \ + bs=\\; \ + sane_makeflags=`printf '%s\n' "$$MAKEFLAGS" \ + | sed "s/$$bs$$bs[$$bs $$bs ]*//g"`;; \ esac; \ - test $$am__dry = yes; \ - } + fi; \ + skip_next=no; \ + strip_trailopt () \ + { \ + flg=`printf '%s\n' "$$flg" | sed "s/$$1.*$$//"`; \ + }; \ + for flg in $$sane_makeflags; do \ + test $$skip_next = yes && { skip_next=no; continue; }; \ + case $$flg in \ + *=*|--*) continue;; \ + -*I) strip_trailopt 'I'; skip_next=yes;; \ + -*I?*) strip_trailopt 'I';; \ + -*O) strip_trailopt 'O'; skip_next=yes;; \ + -*O?*) strip_trailopt 'O';; \ + -*l) strip_trailopt 'l'; skip_next=yes;; \ + -*l?*) strip_trailopt 'l';; \ + -[dEDm]) skip_next=yes;; \ + -[JT]) skip_next=yes;; \ + esac; \ + case $$flg in \ + *$$target_option*) has_opt=yes; break;; \ + esac; \ + done; \ + test $$has_opt = yes +am__make_dryrun = (target_option=n; $(am__make_running_with_option)) +am__make_keepgoing = (target_option=k; $(am__make_running_with_option)) pkgdatadir = $(datadir)/@PACKAGE@ pkgincludedir = $(includedir)/@PACKAGE@ pkglibdir = $(libdir)/@PACKAGE@ @@ -71,20 +98,22 @@ POST_UNINSTALL = : build_triplet = @build@ host_triplet = @host@ subdir = doc -DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/Makefile.in \ - $(srcdir)/stamp-vti $(srcdir)/version.texi $(wget_TEXINFOS) \ - ChangeLog +DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/Makefile.am \ + $(wget_TEXINFOS) $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/mdate-sh \ + $(srcdir)/version.texi $(srcdir)/stamp-vti \ + $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/texinfo.tex ChangeLog ACLOCAL_M4 = $(top_srcdir)/aclocal.m4 am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/00gnulib.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/alloca.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/arpa_inet_h.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/absolute-header.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/alloca.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/arpa_inet_h.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/asm-underscore.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/base32.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/btowc.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/clock_time.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/close.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/codeset.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/configmake.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/dirname.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/double-slash-root.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/dup2.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/environ.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/errno_h.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/error.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/exponentd.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/extensions.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/eealloc.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/environ.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/errno_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/error.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/exponentd.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/extensions.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/extern-inline.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/fatal-signal.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/fcntl-o.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/fcntl.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/fcntl_h.m4 \ @@ -96,15 +125,16 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/00gnulib.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/getline.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/getopt.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/getpass.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/gettext.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/gettime.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/gettimeofday.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/glibc21.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/gnulib-common.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/gl-openssl.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/glibc21.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/gnulib-common.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/gnulib-comp.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/hostent.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/iconv.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/iconv_h.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/include_next.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/inet_ntop.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/inline.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/intlmacosx.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/intmax_t.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/inttypes_h.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/ioctl.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/langinfo_h.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/largefile.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/lib-ld.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/lib-link.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/lib-prefix.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/intlmacosx.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/intmax_t.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/inttypes_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/ioctl.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/langinfo_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/largefile.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/lib-ld.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/lib-link.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/lib-prefix.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/localcharset.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/locale-fr.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/locale-ja.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/locale-zh.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/locale_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/localeconv.m4 \ @@ -114,8 +144,9 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/00gnulib.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/mbsinit.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/mbstate_t.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/mbtowc.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/md5.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/memchr.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/mkdir.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/mkstemp.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/mmap-anon.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/mode_t.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/msvc-inval.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/mkostemp.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/mkstemp.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/mmap-anon.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/mode_t.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/msvc-inval.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/msvc-nothrow.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/multiarch.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/netdb_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/netinet_in_h.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/nl_langinfo.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/nls.m4 \ @@ -126,10 +157,10 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/00gnulib.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/quote.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/quotearg.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/raise.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/rawmemchr.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/realloc.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/regex.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/sched_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/select.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/servent.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sha1.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/sig_atomic_t.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sigaction.m4 \ - $(top_srcdir)/m4/signal_h.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/sched_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/secure_getenv.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/select.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/servent.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/sha1.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sig_atomic_t.m4 \ + $(top_srcdir)/m4/sigaction.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/signal_h.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/signalblocking.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sigpipe.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/size_max.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/snprintf.m4 \ $(top_srcdir)/m4/socketlib.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sockets.m4 \ @@ -169,8 +200,48 @@ mkinstalldirs = $(install_sh) -d CONFIG_HEADER = $(top_builddir)/src/config.h CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES = CONFIG_CLEAN_VPATH_FILES = +AM_V_P = $(am__v_P_@AM_V@) +am__v_P_ = $(am__v_P_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_P_0 = false +am__v_P_1 = : +AM_V_GEN = $(am__v_GEN_@AM_V@) +am__v_GEN_ = $(am__v_GEN_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_GEN_0 = @echo " GEN " $@; +am__v_GEN_1 = +AM_V_at = $(am__v_at_@AM_V@) +am__v_at_ = $(am__v_at_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_at_0 = @ +am__v_at_1 = SOURCES = DIST_SOURCES = +AM_V_DVIPS = $(am__v_DVIPS_@AM_V@) +am__v_DVIPS_ = $(am__v_DVIPS_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_DVIPS_0 = @echo " DVIPS " $@; +am__v_DVIPS_1 = +AM_V_MAKEINFO = $(am__v_MAKEINFO_@AM_V@) +am__v_MAKEINFO_ = $(am__v_MAKEINFO_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_MAKEINFO_0 = @echo " MAKEINFO" $@; +am__v_MAKEINFO_1 = +AM_V_INFOHTML = $(am__v_INFOHTML_@AM_V@) +am__v_INFOHTML_ = $(am__v_INFOHTML_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_INFOHTML_0 = @echo " INFOHTML" $@; +am__v_INFOHTML_1 = +AM_V_TEXI2DVI = $(am__v_TEXI2DVI_@AM_V@) +am__v_TEXI2DVI_ = $(am__v_TEXI2DVI_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_TEXI2DVI_0 = @echo " TEXI2DVI" $@; +am__v_TEXI2DVI_1 = +AM_V_TEXI2PDF = $(am__v_TEXI2PDF_@AM_V@) +am__v_TEXI2PDF_ = $(am__v_TEXI2PDF_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_TEXI2PDF_0 = @echo " TEXI2PDF" $@; +am__v_TEXI2PDF_1 = +AM_V_texinfo = $(am__v_texinfo_@AM_V@) +am__v_texinfo_ = $(am__v_texinfo_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_texinfo_0 = -q +am__v_texinfo_1 = +AM_V_texidevnull = $(am__v_texidevnull_@AM_V@) +am__v_texidevnull_ = $(am__v_texidevnull_@AM_DEFAULT_V@) +am__v_texidevnull_0 = > /dev/null +am__v_texidevnull_1 = INFO_DEPS = $(srcdir)/wget.info TEXINFO_TEX = $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/texinfo.tex am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR = $(top_srcdir)/build-aux @@ -216,12 +287,14 @@ am__uninstall_files_from_dir = { \ || { echo " ( cd '$$dir' && rm -f" $$files ")"; \ $(am__cd) "$$dir" && rm -f $$files; }; \ } +am__tagged_files = $(HEADERS) $(SOURCES) $(TAGS_FILES) $(LISP) DISTFILES = $(DIST_COMMON) $(DIST_SOURCES) $(TEXINFOS) $(EXTRA_DIST) pkglibexecdir = @pkglibexecdir@ ACLOCAL = @ACLOCAL@ ALLOCA = @ALLOCA@ ALLOCA_H = @ALLOCA_H@ AMTAR = @AMTAR@ +AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY = @AM_DEFAULT_VERBOSITY@ APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD = @APPLE_UNIVERSAL_BUILD@ AR = @AR@ ARFLAGS = @ARFLAGS@ @@ -452,6 +525,7 @@ GNULIB_RENAMEAT = @GNULIB_RENAMEAT@ GNULIB_RMDIR = @GNULIB_RMDIR@ GNULIB_RPMATCH = @GNULIB_RPMATCH@ GNULIB_SCANF = @GNULIB_SCANF@ +GNULIB_SECURE_GETENV = @GNULIB_SECURE_GETENV@ GNULIB_SELECT = @GNULIB_SELECT@ GNULIB_SEND = @GNULIB_SEND@ GNULIB_SENDTO = @GNULIB_SENDTO@ @@ -699,6 +773,7 @@ HAVE_RENAMEAT = @HAVE_RENAMEAT@ HAVE_RPMATCH = @HAVE_RPMATCH@ HAVE_SA_FAMILY_T = @HAVE_SA_FAMILY_T@ HAVE_SCHED_H = @HAVE_SCHED_H@ +HAVE_SECURE_GETENV = @HAVE_SECURE_GETENV@ HAVE_SETENV = @HAVE_SETENV@ HAVE_SETHOSTNAME = @HAVE_SETHOSTNAME@ HAVE_SIGACTION = @HAVE_SIGACTION@ @@ -828,6 +903,7 @@ LIBSSL = @LIBSSL@ LIBSSL_PREFIX = @LIBSSL_PREFIX@ LIBTHREAD = @LIBTHREAD@ LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME = @LIB_CLOCK_GETTIME@ +LIB_CRYPTO = @LIB_CRYPTO@ LIB_SELECT = @LIB_SELECT@ LOCALCHARSET_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT = @LOCALCHARSET_TESTS_ENVIRONMENT@ LOCALE_FR = @LOCALE_FR@ @@ -848,6 +924,7 @@ MSGFMT = @MSGFMT@ MSGFMT_015 = @MSGFMT_015@ MSGMERGE = @MSGMERGE@ NETINET_IN_H = @NETINET_IN_H@ +NETTLE_LIBS = @NETTLE_LIBS@ NEXT_ARPA_INET_H = @NEXT_ARPA_INET_H@ NEXT_AS_FIRST_DIRECTIVE_ARPA_INET_H = @NEXT_AS_FIRST_DIRECTIVE_ARPA_INET_H@ NEXT_AS_FIRST_DIRECTIVE_ERRNO_H = @NEXT_AS_FIRST_DIRECTIVE_ERRNO_H@ @@ -957,11 +1034,13 @@ REPLACE_GAI_STRERROR = @REPLACE_GAI_STRERROR@ REPLACE_GETCWD = @REPLACE_GETCWD@ REPLACE_GETDELIM = @REPLACE_GETDELIM@ REPLACE_GETDOMAINNAME = @REPLACE_GETDOMAINNAME@ +REPLACE_GETDTABLESIZE = @REPLACE_GETDTABLESIZE@ REPLACE_GETGROUPS = @REPLACE_GETGROUPS@ REPLACE_GETLINE = @REPLACE_GETLINE@ REPLACE_GETLOGIN_R = @REPLACE_GETLOGIN_R@ REPLACE_GETPAGESIZE = @REPLACE_GETPAGESIZE@ REPLACE_GETTIMEOFDAY = @REPLACE_GETTIMEOFDAY@ +REPLACE_GMTIME = @REPLACE_GMTIME@ REPLACE_ICONV = @REPLACE_ICONV@ REPLACE_ICONV_OPEN = @REPLACE_ICONV_OPEN@ REPLACE_ICONV_UTF = @REPLACE_ICONV_UTF@ @@ -976,6 +1055,7 @@ REPLACE_LCHOWN = @REPLACE_LCHOWN@ REPLACE_LINK = @REPLACE_LINK@ REPLACE_LINKAT = @REPLACE_LINKAT@ REPLACE_LOCALECONV = @REPLACE_LOCALECONV@ +REPLACE_LOCALTIME = @REPLACE_LOCALTIME@ REPLACE_LOCALTIME_R = @REPLACE_LOCALTIME_R@ REPLACE_LSEEK = @REPLACE_LSEEK@ REPLACE_LSTAT = @REPLACE_LSTAT@ @@ -1010,6 +1090,7 @@ REPLACE_PREAD = @REPLACE_PREAD@ REPLACE_PRINTF = @REPLACE_PRINTF@ REPLACE_PSELECT = @REPLACE_PSELECT@ REPLACE_PTHREAD_SIGMASK = @REPLACE_PTHREAD_SIGMASK@ +REPLACE_PTSNAME = @REPLACE_PTSNAME@ REPLACE_PTSNAME_R = @REPLACE_PTSNAME_R@ REPLACE_PUTENV = @REPLACE_PUTENV@ REPLACE_PWRITE = @REPLACE_PWRITE@ @@ -1146,6 +1227,7 @@ pdfdir = @pdfdir@ prefix = @prefix@ program_transform_name = @program_transform_name@ psdir = @psdir@ +runstatedir = @runstatedir@ sbindir = @sbindir@ sharedstatedir = @sharedstatedir@ srcdir = @srcdir@ @@ -1218,7 +1300,7 @@ $(ACLOCAL_M4): $(am__aclocal_m4_deps) $(am__aclocal_m4_deps): .texi.info: - restore=: && backupdir="$(am__leading_dot)am$$$$" && \ + $(AM_V_MAKEINFO)restore=: && backupdir="$(am__leading_dot)am$$$$" && \ am__cwd=`pwd` && $(am__cd) $(srcdir) && \ rm -rf $$backupdir && mkdir $$backupdir && \ if ($(MAKEINFO) --version) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \ @@ -1240,18 +1322,20 @@ $(am__aclocal_m4_deps): rm -rf $$backupdir; exit $$rc .texi.dvi: - TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ + $(AM_V_TEXI2DVI)TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ MAKEINFO='$(MAKEINFO) $(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I $(srcdir)' \ - $(TEXI2DVI) $< + $(TEXI2DVI) $(AM_V_texinfo) --build-dir=$(@:.dvi=.t2d) -o $@ $(AM_V_texidevnull) \ + $< .texi.pdf: - TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ + $(AM_V_TEXI2PDF)TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ MAKEINFO='$(MAKEINFO) $(AM_MAKEINFOFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I $(srcdir)' \ - $(TEXI2PDF) $< + $(TEXI2PDF) $(AM_V_texinfo) --build-dir=$(@:.pdf=.t2p) -o $@ $(AM_V_texidevnull) \ + $< .texi.html: - rm -rf $(@:.html=.htp) - if $(MAKEINFOHTML) $(AM_MAKEINFOHTMLFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I $(srcdir) \ + $(AM_V_MAKEINFO)rm -rf $(@:.html=.htp) + $(AM_V_at)if $(MAKEINFOHTML) $(AM_MAKEINFOHTMLFLAGS) $(MAKEINFOFLAGS) -I $(srcdir) \ -o $(@:.html=.htp) $<; \ then \ rm -rf $@; \ @@ -1286,8 +1370,8 @@ mostlyclean-vti: maintainer-clean-vti: -rm -f $(srcdir)/stamp-vti $(srcdir)/version.texi .dvi.ps: - TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ - $(DVIPS) -o $@ $< + $(AM_V_DVIPS)TEXINPUTS="$(am__TEXINFO_TEX_DIR)$(PATH_SEPARATOR)$$TEXINPUTS" \ + $(DVIPS) $(AM_V_texinfo) -o $@ $< uninstall-dvi-am: @$(NORMAL_UNINSTALL) @@ -1366,9 +1450,7 @@ dist-info: $(INFO_DEPS) done mostlyclean-aminfo: - -rm -rf wget.aux wget.cp wget.cps wget.fn wget.fns wget.ky wget.kys \ - wget.log wget.pg wget.pgs wget.tmp wget.toc wget.tp wget.tps \ - wget.vr wget.vrs + -rm -rf wget.t2d wget.t2p clean-aminfo: -test -z "wget.dvi wget.pdf wget.ps wget.html" \ @@ -1380,11 +1462,11 @@ maintainer-clean-aminfo: echo " rm -f $$i $$i-[0-9] $$i-[0-9][0-9] $$i_i[0-9] $$i_i[0-9][0-9]"; \ rm -f $$i $$i-[0-9] $$i-[0-9][0-9] $$i_i[0-9] $$i_i[0-9][0-9]; \ done -tags: TAGS -TAGS: +tags TAGS: -ctags: CTAGS -CTAGS: +ctags CTAGS: + +cscope cscopelist: distdir: $(DISTFILES) @@ -1621,19 +1703,19 @@ uninstall-am: uninstall-dvi-am uninstall-html-am uninstall-info-am \ .MAKE: install-am install-strip .PHONY: all all-am check check-am clean clean-aminfo clean-generic \ - dist-info distclean distclean-generic distdir dvi dvi-am html \ - html-am info info-am install install-am install-data \ - install-data-am install-data-local install-dvi install-dvi-am \ - install-exec install-exec-am install-html install-html-am \ - install-info install-info-am install-man install-pdf \ - install-pdf-am install-ps install-ps-am install-strip \ - installcheck installcheck-am installdirs maintainer-clean \ - maintainer-clean-aminfo maintainer-clean-generic \ - maintainer-clean-vti mostlyclean mostlyclean-aminfo \ - mostlyclean-generic mostlyclean-vti pdf pdf-am ps ps-am \ - uninstall uninstall-am uninstall-dvi-am uninstall-html-am \ - uninstall-info-am uninstall-local uninstall-pdf-am \ - uninstall-ps-am + cscopelist-am ctags-am dist-info distclean distclean-generic \ + distdir dvi dvi-am html html-am info info-am install \ + install-am install-data install-data-am install-data-local \ + install-dvi install-dvi-am install-exec install-exec-am \ + install-html install-html-am install-info install-info-am \ + install-man install-pdf install-pdf-am install-ps \ + install-ps-am install-strip installcheck installcheck-am \ + installdirs maintainer-clean maintainer-clean-aminfo \ + maintainer-clean-generic maintainer-clean-vti mostlyclean \ + mostlyclean-aminfo mostlyclean-generic mostlyclean-vti pdf \ + pdf-am ps ps-am tags-am uninstall uninstall-am \ + uninstall-dvi-am uninstall-html-am uninstall-info-am \ + uninstall-local uninstall-pdf-am uninstall-ps-am all: wget.info @COMMENT_IF_NO_POD2MAN@$(MAN) diff --git a/doc/sample.wgetrc b/doc/sample.wgetrc index 064ceb1..ad86be3 100644 --- a/doc/sample.wgetrc +++ b/doc/sample.wgetrc @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ ## You can use this file to change the default behaviour of wget or to ## avoid having to type many many command-line options. This file does ## not contain a comprehensive list of commands -- look at the manual -## to find out what you can put into this file. +## to find out what you can put into this file. You can find this here: +## $ info wget.info 'Startup File' +## Or online here: +## https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Startup-File ## ## Wget initialization file can reside in /usr/local/etc/wgetrc ## (global, for all users) or $HOME/.wgetrc (for a single user). @@ -123,3 +126,9 @@ # Force the default remote server encoding #remoteencoding = UTF-8 + +# Turn on to prevent following non-HTTPS links when in recursive mode +#httpsonly = off + +# Tune HTTPS security (auto, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1, PFS) +#secureprotocol = auto diff --git a/doc/sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion b/doc/sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion index 9b34de6..573974c 100644 --- a/doc/sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion +++ b/doc/sample.wgetrc.munged_for_texi_inclusion @@ -5,7 +5,10 @@ ## You can use this file to change the default behaviour of wget or to ## avoid having to type many many command-line options. This file does ## not contain a comprehensive list of commands -- look at the manual -## to find out what you can put into this file. +## to find out what you can put into this file. You can find this here: +## $ info wget.info 'Startup File' +## Or online here: +## https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Startup-File ## ## Wget initialization file can reside in /usr/local/etc/wgetrc ## (global, for all users) or $HOME/.wgetrc (for a single user). @@ -123,3 +126,9 @@ # Force the default remote server encoding #remoteencoding = UTF-8 + +# Turn on to prevent following non-HTTPS links when in recursive mode +#httpsonly = off + +# Tune HTTPS security (auto, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1, PFS) +#secureprotocol = auto diff --git a/doc/stamp-vti b/doc/stamp-vti index 295b74a..6d0e6f2 100644 --- a/doc/stamp-vti +++ b/doc/stamp-vti @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@set UPDATED 4 August 2012 -@set UPDATED-MONTH August 2012 -@set EDITION 1.14 -@set VERSION 1.14 +@set UPDATED 4 January 2014 +@set UPDATED-MONTH January 2014 +@set EDITION 1.15 +@set VERSION 1.15 diff --git a/doc/texi2pod.pl b/doc/texi2pod.pl index 86c4b18..9db6de1 100755 --- a/doc/texi2pod.pl +++ b/doc/texi2pod.pl @@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ while(<$inf>) { if (defined $1) { my $thing = $1; if ($ic =~ /\@asis/) { - $_ = "\n=item $thing\n"; + $_ = "\n=item C<$thing>\n"; } else { # Entity escapes prevent munging by the <> processing below. $_ = "\n=item $ic\<$thing\>\n"; diff --git a/doc/version.texi b/doc/version.texi index 295b74a..6d0e6f2 100644 --- a/doc/version.texi +++ b/doc/version.texi @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -@set UPDATED 4 August 2012 -@set UPDATED-MONTH August 2012 -@set EDITION 1.14 -@set VERSION 1.14 +@set UPDATED 4 January 2014 +@set UPDATED-MONTH January 2014 +@set EDITION 1.15 +@set VERSION 1.15 diff --git a/doc/wget.info b/doc/wget.info index 8a49bb8..a3b4a34 100644 --- a/doc/wget.info +++ b/doc/wget.info @@ -1,27 +1,25 @@ -This is wget.info, produced by makeinfo version 4.13 from wget.texi. +This is wget.info, produced by makeinfo version 5.1 from wget.texi. -INFO-DIR-SECTION Network applications -START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY -* Wget: (wget). Non-interactive network downloader. -END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY - - This file documents the GNU Wget utility for downloading network -data. +This file documents the GNU Wget utility for downloading network data. Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no -Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A -copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free -Documentation License". +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU +Free Documentation License". +INFO-DIR-SECTION Network applications +START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY +* Wget: (wget). Non-interactive network downloader. +END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY File: wget.info, Node: Top, Next: Overview, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir) -Wget 1.14 +Wget 1.15 ********* This file documents the GNU Wget utility for downloading network data. @@ -30,11 +28,11 @@ This file documents the GNU Wget utility for downloading network data. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document -under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no -Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A -copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free -Documentation License". +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU +Free Documentation License". * Menu: @@ -73,17 +71,17 @@ retrieval through HTTP proxies. 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 + Exclusion Standard ('/robots.txt'). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded files to point at the local files, for offline viewing. * 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. Thus Wget can see if the remote file has - changed since last retrieval, and automatically retrieve the new - version if it has. This makes Wget suitable for mirroring of FTP - sites, as well as home pages. + store it locally. Thus Wget can see if the remote file has changed + since last retrieval, and automatically retrieve the new version if + it has. This makes Wget suitable for mirroring of FTP sites, as + well as home pages. * Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will @@ -95,7 +93,7 @@ retrieval through HTTP proxies. speed up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls. Wget uses the passive FTP downloading by default, active FTP being an option. - * Wget supports IP version 6, the next generation of IP. IPv6 is + * Wget supports IP version 6, the next generation of IP. IPv6 is autodetected at compile-time, and can be disabled at either build or run time. Binaries built with IPv6 support work well in both IPv4-only and dual family environments. @@ -110,17 +108,17 @@ retrieval through HTTP proxies. (1KB by default). Either gauge can be customized to your preferences. - * Most of the features are fully configurable, either through - command line options, or via the initialization file `.wgetrc' - (*note Startup File::). Wget allows you to define "global" - startup files (`/usr/local/etc/wgetrc' by default) for site - settings. You can also specify the location of a startup file with - the -config option. + * Most of the features are fully configurable, either through command + line options, or via the initialization file '.wgetrc' (*note + Startup File::). Wget allows you to define "global" startup files + ('/usr/local/etc/wgetrc' by default) for site settings. You can + also specify the location of a startup file with the -config + option. * Finally, GNU Wget is free software. This means that everyone may - use it, redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the - GNU General Public License, as published by the Free Software - Foundation (see the file `COPYING' that came with GNU Wget, for + use it, redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU + General Public License, as published by the Free Software + Foundation (see the file 'COPYING' that came with GNU Wget, for details). @@ -133,28 +131,28 @@ By default, Wget is very simple to invoke. The basic syntax is: wget [OPTION]... [URL]... - Wget will simply download all the URLs specified on the command -line. URL is a "Uniform Resource Locator", as defined below. + Wget will simply download all the URLs specified on the command line. +URL is a "Uniform Resource Locator", as defined below. However, you may wish to change some of the default parameters of Wget. You can do it two ways: permanently, adding the appropriate -command to `.wgetrc' (*note Startup File::), or specifying it on the +command to '.wgetrc' (*note Startup File::), or specifying it on the command line. * Menu: -* URL Format:: -* Option Syntax:: -* Basic Startup Options:: -* Logging and Input File Options:: -* Download Options:: -* Directory Options:: -* HTTP Options:: -* HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options:: -* FTP Options:: -* Recursive Retrieval Options:: -* Recursive Accept/Reject Options:: -* Exit Status:: +* URL Format:: +* Option Syntax:: +* Basic Startup Options:: +* Logging and Input File Options:: +* Download Options:: +* Directory Options:: +* HTTP Options:: +* HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options:: +* FTP Options:: +* Recursive Retrieval Options:: +* Recursive Accept/Reject Options:: +* Exit Status:: File: wget.info, Node: URL Format, Next: Option Syntax, Prev: Invoking, Up: Invoking @@ -177,39 +175,37 @@ the most widely used form (square brackets denote optional parts): Either USER or PASSWORD, or both, may be left out. If you leave out either the HTTP username or password, no authentication will be sent. -If you leave out the FTP username, `anonymous' will be used. If you +If you leave out the FTP username, 'anonymous' will be used. If you leave out the FTP password, your email address will be supplied as a default password.(1) *Important Note*: if you specify a password-containing URL on the command line, the username and password will be plainly visible to all -users on the system, by way of `ps'. On multi-user systems, this is a -big security risk. To work around it, use `wget -i -' and feed the -URLs to Wget's standard input, each on a separate line, terminated by -`C-d'. +users on the system, by way of 'ps'. On multi-user systems, this is a +big security risk. To work around it, use 'wget -i -' and feed the URLs +to Wget's standard input, each on a separate line, terminated by 'C-d'. - You can encode unsafe characters in a URL as `%xy', `xy' being the + You can encode unsafe characters in a URL as '%xy', 'xy' being the hexadecimal representation of the character's ASCII value. Some common -unsafe characters include `%' (quoted as `%25'), `:' (quoted as `%3A'), -and `@' (quoted as `%40'). Refer to RFC1738 for a comprehensive list -of unsafe characters. +unsafe characters include '%' (quoted as '%25'), ':' (quoted as '%3A'), +and '@' (quoted as '%40'). Refer to RFC1738 for a comprehensive list of +unsafe characters. - Wget also supports the `type' feature for FTP URLs. By default, FTP -documents are retrieved in the binary mode (type `i'), which means that -they are downloaded unchanged. Another useful mode is the `a' -("ASCII") mode, which converts the line delimiters between the -different operating systems, and is thus useful for text files. Here -is an example: + Wget also supports the 'type' feature for FTP URLs. By default, FTP +documents are retrieved in the binary mode (type 'i'), which means that +they are downloaded unchanged. Another useful mode is the 'a' ("ASCII") +mode, which converts the line delimiters between the different operating +systems, and is thus useful for text files. Here is an example: ftp://host/directory/file;type=a Two alternative variants of URL specification are also supported, -because of historical (hysterical?) reasons and their widespreaded use. +because of historical (hysterical?) reasons and their widespreaded use. - FTP-only syntax (supported by `NcFTP'): + FTP-only syntax (supported by 'NcFTP'): host:/dir/file - HTTP-only syntax (introduced by `Netscape'): + HTTP-only syntax (introduced by 'Netscape'): host[:port]/dir/file These two alternative forms are deprecated, and may cease being @@ -217,12 +213,12 @@ supported in the future. If you do not understand the difference between these notations, or do not know which one to use, just use the plain ordinary format you use -with your favorite browser, like `Lynx' or `Netscape'. +with your favorite browser, like 'Lynx' or 'Netscape'. ---------- Footnotes ---------- - (1) If you have a `.netrc' file in your home directory, password -will also be searched for there. + (1) If you have a '.netrc' file in your home directory, password will +also be searched for there. File: wget.info, Node: Option Syntax, Next: Basic Startup Options, Prev: URL Format, Up: Invoking @@ -239,7 +235,7 @@ arguments. Thus you may write: wget -r --tries=10 http://fly.srk.fer.hr/ -o log The space between the option accepting an argument and the argument -may be omitted. Instead of `-o log' you can write `-olog'. +may be omitted. Instead of '-o log' you can write '-olog'. You may put several options that do not require arguments together, like: @@ -251,41 +247,41 @@ like: wget -d -r -c URL Since the options can be specified after the arguments, you may -terminate them with `--'. So the following will try to download URL -`-x', reporting failure to `log': +terminate them with '--'. So the following will try to download URL +'-x', reporting failure to 'log': wget -o log -- -x The options that accept comma-separated lists all respect the convention that specifying an empty list clears its value. This can be -useful to clear the `.wgetrc' settings. For instance, if your `.wgetrc' -sets `exclude_directories' to `/cgi-bin', the following example will -first reset it, and then set it to exclude `/~nobody' and `/~somebody'. -You can also clear the lists in `.wgetrc' (*note Wgetrc Syntax::). +useful to clear the '.wgetrc' settings. For instance, if your '.wgetrc' +sets 'exclude_directories' to '/cgi-bin', the following example will +first reset it, and then set it to exclude '/~nobody' and '/~somebody'. +You can also clear the lists in '.wgetrc' (*note Wgetrc Syntax::). wget -X '' -X /~nobody,/~somebody Most options that do not accept arguments are "boolean" options, so named because their state can be captured with a yes-or-no ("boolean") -variable. For example, `--follow-ftp' tells Wget to follow FTP links -from HTML files and, on the other hand, `--no-glob' tells it not to +variable. For example, '--follow-ftp' tells Wget to follow FTP links +from HTML files and, on the other hand, '--no-glob' tells it not to perform file globbing on FTP URLs. A boolean option is either -"affirmative" or "negative" (beginning with `--no'). All such options +"affirmative" or "negative" (beginning with '--no'). All such options share several properties. Unless stated otherwise, it is assumed that the default behavior is the opposite of what the option accomplishes. For example, the -documented existence of `--follow-ftp' assumes that the default is to +documented existence of '--follow-ftp' assumes that the default is to _not_ follow FTP links from HTML pages. - Affirmative options can be negated by prepending the `--no-' to the -option name; negative options can be negated by omitting the `--no-' + Affirmative options can be negated by prepending the '--no-' to the +option name; negative options can be negated by omitting the '--no-' prefix. This might seem superfluous--if the default for an affirmative -option is to not do something, then why provide a way to explicitly -turn it off? But the startup file may in fact change the default. For -instance, using `follow_ftp = on' in `.wgetrc' makes Wget _follow_ FTP -links by default, and using `--no-follow-ftp' is the only way to -restore the factory default from the command line. +option is to not do something, then why provide a way to explicitly turn +it off? But the startup file may in fact change the default. For +instance, using 'follow_ftp = on' in '.wgetrc' makes Wget _follow_ FTP +links by default, and using '--no-follow-ftp' is the only way to restore +the factory default from the command line. File: wget.info, Node: Basic Startup Options, Next: Logging and Input File Options, Prev: Option Syntax, Up: Invoking @@ -293,27 +289,26 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Basic Startup Options, Next: Logging and Input File Opt 2.3 Basic Startup Options ========================= -`-V' -`--version' +'-V' +'--version' Display the version of Wget. -`-h' -`--help' +'-h' +'--help' Print a help message describing all of Wget's command-line options. -`-b' -`--background' +'-b' +'--background' Go to background immediately after startup. If no output file is - specified via the `-o', output is redirected to `wget-log'. + specified via the '-o', output is redirected to 'wget-log'. -`-e COMMAND' -`--execute COMMAND' - Execute COMMAND as if it were a part of `.wgetrc' (*note Startup +'-e COMMAND' +'--execute COMMAND' + Execute COMMAND as if it were a part of '.wgetrc' (*note Startup File::). A command thus invoked will be executed _after_ the - commands in `.wgetrc', thus taking precedence over them. If you + commands in '.wgetrc', thus taking precedence over them. If you need to specify more than one wgetrc command, use multiple - instances of `-e'. - + instances of '-e'. File: wget.info, Node: Logging and Input File Options, Next: Download Options, Prev: Basic Startup Options, Up: Invoking @@ -321,91 +316,90 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Logging and Input File Options, Next: Download Options, 2.4 Logging and Input File Options ================================== -`-o LOGFILE' -`--output-file=LOGFILE' - Log all messages to LOGFILE. The messages are normally reported - to standard error. +'-o LOGFILE' +'--output-file=LOGFILE' + Log all messages to LOGFILE. The messages are normally reported to + standard error. -`-a LOGFILE' -`--append-output=LOGFILE' - Append to LOGFILE. This is the same as `-o', only it appends to +'-a LOGFILE' +'--append-output=LOGFILE' + Append to LOGFILE. This is the same as '-o', only it appends to LOGFILE instead of overwriting the old log file. If LOGFILE does not exist, a new file is created. -`-d' -`--debug' +'-d' +'--debug' Turn on debug output, meaning various information important to the developers of Wget if it does not work properly. Your system administrator may have chosen to compile Wget without debug - support, in which case `-d' will not work. Please note that - compiling with debug support is always safe--Wget compiled with - the debug support will _not_ print any debug info unless requested - with `-d'. *Note Reporting Bugs::, for more information on how to - use `-d' for sending bug reports. - -`-q' -`--quiet' + support, in which case '-d' will not work. Please note that + compiling with debug support is always safe--Wget compiled with the + debug support will _not_ print any debug info unless requested with + '-d'. *Note Reporting Bugs::, for more information on how to use + '-d' for sending bug reports. + +'-q' +'--quiet' Turn off Wget's output. -`-v' -`--verbose' +'-v' +'--verbose' Turn on verbose output, with all the available data. The default output is verbose. -`-nv' -`--no-verbose' - Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use `-q' for +'-nv' +'--no-verbose' + Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use '-q' for that), which means that error messages and basic information still get printed. -`-nv' -`--report-speed=TYPE' - Output bandwidth as TYPE. The only accepted value is `bits'. +'--report-speed=TYPE' + Output bandwidth as TYPE. The only accepted value is 'bits'. -`-i FILE' -`--input-file=FILE' - Read URLs from a local or external FILE. If `-' is specified as - FILE, URLs are read from the standard input. (Use `./-' to read - from a file literally named `-'.) +'-i FILE' +'--input-file=FILE' + Read URLs from a local or external FILE. If '-' is specified as + FILE, URLs are read from the standard input. (Use './-' to read + from a file literally named '-'.) If this function is used, no URLs need be present on the command line. If there are URLs both on the command line and in an input file, those on the command lines will be the first ones to be - retrieved. If `--force-html' is not specified, then FILE should + retrieved. If '--force-html' is not specified, then FILE should consist of a series of URLs, one per line. - However, if you specify `--force-html', the document will be - regarded as `html'. In that case you may have problems with - relative links, which you can solve either by adding `<base - href="URL">' to the documents or by specifying `--base=URL' on the + However, if you specify '--force-html', the document will be + regarded as 'html'. In that case you may have problems with + relative links, which you can solve either by adding '<base + href="URL">' to the documents or by specifying '--base=URL' on the command line. If the FILE is an external one, the document will be automatically - treated as `html' if the Content-Type matches `text/html'. + treated as 'html' if the Content-Type matches 'text/html'. Furthermore, the FILE's location will be implicitly used as base href if none was specified. -`-F' -`--force-html' +'-F' +'--force-html' When input is read from a file, force it to be treated as an HTML file. This enables you to retrieve relative links from existing - HTML files on your local disk, by adding `<base href="URL">' to - HTML, or using the `--base' command-line option. + HTML files on your local disk, by adding '<base href="URL">' to + HTML, or using the '--base' command-line option. -`-B URL' -`--base=URL' +'-B URL' +'--base=URL' Resolves relative links using URL as the point of reference, when reading links from an HTML file specified via the - `-i'/`--input-file' option (together with `--force-html', or when + '-i'/'--input-file' option (together with '--force-html', or when the input file was fetched remotely from a server describing it as - HTML). This is equivalent to the presence of a `BASE' tag in the - HTML input file, with URL as the value for the `href' attribute. + HTML). This is equivalent to the presence of a 'BASE' tag in the + HTML input file, with URL as the value for the 'href' attribute. - For instance, if you specify `http://foo/bar/a.html' for URL, and - Wget reads `../baz/b.html' from the input file, it would be - resolved to `http://foo/baz/b.html'. + For instance, if you specify 'http://foo/bar/a.html' for URL, and + Wget reads '../baz/b.html' from the input file, it would be + resolved to 'http://foo/baz/b.html'. -`--config=FILE' +'--config=FILE' Specify the location of a startup file you wish to use. @@ -414,96 +408,101 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi 2.5 Download Options ==================== -`--bind-address=ADDRESS' - When making client TCP/IP connections, bind to ADDRESS on the - local machine. ADDRESS may be specified as a hostname or IP - address. This option can be useful if your machine is bound to - multiple IPs. +'--bind-address=ADDRESS' + When making client TCP/IP connections, bind to ADDRESS on the local + machine. ADDRESS may be specified as a hostname or IP address. + This option can be useful if your machine is bound to multiple IPs. -`-t NUMBER' -`--tries=NUMBER' - Set number of retries to NUMBER. Specify 0 or `inf' for infinite +'-t NUMBER' +'--tries=NUMBER' + Set number of tries to NUMBER. Specify 0 or 'inf' for infinite retrying. The default is to retry 20 times, with the exception of fatal errors like "connection refused" or "not found" (404), which are not retried. -`-O FILE' -`--output-document=FILE' +'-O FILE' +'--output-document=FILE' The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all - will be concatenated together and written to FILE. If `-' is used + will be concatenated together and written to FILE. If '-' is used as FILE, documents will be printed to standard output, disabling - link conversion. (Use `./-' to print to a file literally named - `-'.) + link conversion. (Use './-' to print to a file literally named + '-'.) - Use of `-O' is _not_ intended to mean simply "use the name FILE + Use of '-O' is _not_ intended to mean simply "use the name FILE instead of the one in the URL;" rather, it is analogous to shell - redirection: `wget -O file http://foo' is intended to work like - `wget -O - http://foo > file'; `file' will be truncated + redirection: 'wget -O file http://foo' is intended to work like + 'wget -O - http://foo > file'; 'file' will be truncated immediately, and _all_ downloaded content will be written there. - For this reason, `-N' (for timestamp-checking) is not supported in - combination with `-O': since FILE is always newly created, it will - always have a very new timestamp. A warning will be issued if this + For this reason, '-N' (for timestamp-checking) is not supported in + combination with '-O': since FILE is always newly created, it will + always have a very new timestamp. A warning will be issued if this combination is used. - Similarly, using `-r' or `-p' with `-O' may not work as you - expect: Wget won't just download the first file to FILE and then - download the rest to their normal names: _all_ downloaded content - will be placed in FILE. This was disabled in version 1.11, but has - been reinstated (with a warning) in 1.11.2, as there are some - cases where this behavior can actually have some use. + Similarly, using '-r' or '-p' with '-O' may not work as you expect: + Wget won't just download the first file to FILE and then download + the rest to their normal names: _all_ downloaded content will be + placed in FILE. This was disabled in version 1.11, but has been + reinstated (with a warning) in 1.11.2, as there are some cases + where this behavior can actually have some use. - Note that a combination with `-k' is only permitted when + Note that a combination with '-k' is only permitted when downloading a single document, as in that case it will just convert - all relative URIs to external ones; `-k' makes no sense for + all relative URIs to external ones; '-k' makes no sense for multiple URIs when they're all being downloaded to a single file; - `-k' can be used only when the output is a regular file. + '-k' can be used only when the output is a regular file. -`-nc' -`--no-clobber' +'-nc' +'--no-clobber' If a file is downloaded more than once in the same directory, - Wget's behavior depends on a few options, including `-nc'. In + Wget's behavior depends on a few options, including '-nc'. In certain cases, the local file will be "clobbered", or overwritten, upon repeated download. In other cases it will be preserved. - When running Wget without `-N', `-nc', `-r', or `-p', downloading + When running Wget without '-N', '-nc', '-r', or '-p', downloading the same file in the same directory will result in the original copy of FILE being preserved and the second copy being named - `FILE.1'. If that file is downloaded yet again, the third copy - will be named `FILE.2', and so on. (This is also the behavior - with `-nd', even if `-r' or `-p' are in effect.) When `-nc' is + 'FILE.1'. If that file is downloaded yet again, the third copy + will be named 'FILE.2', and so on. (This is also the behavior with + '-nd', even if '-r' or '-p' are in effect.) When '-nc' is specified, this behavior is suppressed, and Wget will refuse to - download newer copies of `FILE'. Therefore, "`no-clobber'" is + download newer copies of 'FILE'. Therefore, "'no-clobber'" is actually a misnomer in this mode--it's not clobbering that's prevented (as the numeric suffixes were already preventing clobbering), but rather the multiple version saving that's prevented. - When running Wget with `-r' or `-p', but without `-N', `-nd', or - `-nc', re-downloading a file will result in the new copy simply - overwriting the old. Adding `-nc' will prevent this behavior, + When running Wget with '-r' or '-p', but without '-N', '-nd', or + '-nc', re-downloading a file will result in the new copy simply + overwriting the old. Adding '-nc' will prevent this behavior, instead causing the original version to be preserved and any newer copies on the server to be ignored. - When running Wget with `-N', with or without `-r' or `-p', the + When running Wget with '-N', with or without '-r' or '-p', the decision as to whether or not to download a newer copy of a file depends on the local and remote timestamp and size of the file - (*note Time-Stamping::). `-nc' may not be specified at the same - time as `-N'. + (*note Time-Stamping::). '-nc' may not be specified at the same + time as '-N'. - Note that when `-nc' is specified, files with the suffixes `.html' - or `.htm' will be loaded from the local disk and parsed as if they + Note that when '-nc' is specified, files with the suffixes '.html' + or '.htm' will be loaded from the local disk and parsed as if they had been retrieved from the Web. -`-c' -`--continue' +'--backups=BACKUPS' + Before (over)writing a file, back up an existing file by adding a + '.1' suffix ('_1' on VMS) to the file name. Such backup files are + rotated to '.2', '.3', and so on, up to BACKUPS (and lost beyond + that). + +'-c' +'--continue' Continue getting a partially-downloaded file. This is useful when you want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget, or by another program. For instance: wget -c ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z - If there is a file named `ls-lR.Z' in the current directory, Wget + If there is a file named 'ls-lR.Z' in the current directory, Wget will assume that it is the first portion of the remote file, and will ask the server to continue the retrieval from an offset equal to the length of the local file. @@ -511,20 +510,20 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi Note that you don't need to specify this option if you just want the current invocation of Wget to retry downloading a file should the connection be lost midway through. This is the default - behavior. `-c' only affects resumption of downloads started - _prior_ to this invocation of Wget, and whose local files are - still sitting around. + behavior. '-c' only affects resumption of downloads started + _prior_ to this invocation of Wget, and whose local files are still + sitting around. - Without `-c', the previous example would just download the remote - file to `ls-lR.Z.1', leaving the truncated `ls-lR.Z' file alone. + Without '-c', the previous example would just download the remote + file to 'ls-lR.Z.1', leaving the truncated 'ls-lR.Z' file alone. - Beginning with Wget 1.7, if you use `-c' on a non-empty file, and + Beginning with Wget 1.7, if you use '-c' on a non-empty file, and it turns out that the server does not support continued downloading, Wget will refuse to start the download from scratch, - which would effectively ruin existing contents. If you really - want the download to start from scratch, remove the file. + which would effectively ruin existing contents. If you really want + the download to start from scratch, remove the file. - Also beginning with Wget 1.7, if you use `-c' on a file which is of + Also beginning with Wget 1.7, if you use '-c' on a file which is of equal size as the one on the server, Wget will refuse to download the file and print an explanatory message. The same happens when the file is smaller on the server than locally (presumably because @@ -532,31 +531,31 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi attempt)--because "continuing" is not meaningful, no download occurs. - On the other side of the coin, while using `-c', any file that's + On the other side of the coin, while using '-c', any file that's bigger on the server than locally will be considered an incomplete - download and only `(length(remote) - length(local))' bytes will be + download and only '(length(remote) - length(local))' bytes will be downloaded and tacked onto the end of the local file. This behavior can be desirable in certain cases--for instance, you can - use `wget -c' to download just the new portion that's been - appended to a data collection or log file. + use 'wget -c' to download just the new portion that's been appended + to a data collection or log file. However, if the file is bigger on the server because it's been _changed_, as opposed to just _appended_ to, you'll end up with a garbled file. Wget has no way of verifying that the local file is really a valid prefix of the remote file. You need to be - especially careful of this when using `-c' in conjunction with - `-r', since every file will be considered as an "incomplete + especially careful of this when using '-c' in conjunction with + '-r', since every file will be considered as an "incomplete download" candidate. Another instance where you'll get a garbled file if you try to use - `-c' is if you have a lame HTTP proxy that inserts a "transfer + '-c' is if you have a lame HTTP proxy that inserts a "transfer interrupted" string into the local file. In the future a "rollback" option may be added to deal with this case. - Note that `-c' only works with FTP servers and with HTTP servers - that support the `Range' header. + Note that '-c' only works with FTP servers and with HTTP servers + that support the 'Range' header. -`--progress=TYPE' +'--progress=TYPE' Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to use. Legal indicators are "dot" and "bar". @@ -565,47 +564,49 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi retrieval. If the output is not a TTY, the "dot" bar will be used by default. - Use `--progress=dot' to switch to the "dot" display. It traces - the retrieval by printing dots on the screen, each dot - representing a fixed amount of downloaded data. + Use '--progress=dot' to switch to the "dot" display. It traces the + retrieval by printing dots on the screen, each dot representing a + fixed amount of downloaded data. When using the dotted retrieval, you may also set the "style" by - specifying the type as `dot:STYLE'. Different styles assign - different meaning to one dot. With the `default' style each dot + specifying the type as 'dot:STYLE'. Different styles assign + different meaning to one dot. With the 'default' style each dot represents 1K, there are ten dots in a cluster and 50 dots in a - line. The `binary' style has a more "computer"-like + line. The 'binary' style has a more "computer"-like orientation--8K dots, 16-dots clusters and 48 dots per line (which - makes for 384K lines). The `mega' style is suitable for - downloading very large files--each dot represents 64K retrieved, - there are eight dots in a cluster, and 48 dots on each line (so - each line contains 3M). - - Note that you can set the default style using the `progress' - command in `.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the - command line. The exception is that, when the output is not a - TTY, the "dot" progress will be favored over "bar". To force the - bar output, use `--progress=bar:force'. - -`-N' -`--timestamping' + makes for 384K lines). The 'mega' style is suitable for + downloading large files--each dot represents 64K retrieved, there + are eight dots in a cluster, and 48 dots on each line (so each line + contains 3M). If 'mega' is not enough then you can use the 'giga' + style--each dot represents 1M retrieved, there are eight dots in a + cluster, and 32 dots on each line (so each line contains 32M). + + Note that you can set the default style using the 'progress' + command in '.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the + command line. The exception is that, when the output is not a TTY, + the "dot" progress will be favored over "bar". To force the bar + output, use '--progress=bar:force'. + +'-N' +'--timestamping' Turn on time-stamping. *Note Time-Stamping::, for details. -`--no-use-server-timestamps' +'--no-use-server-timestamps' Don't set the local file's timestamp by the one on the server. - By default, when a file is downloaded, it's timestamps are set to - match those from the remote file. This allows the use of - `--timestamping' on subsequent invocations of wget. However, it is + By default, when a file is downloaded, its timestamps are set to + match those from the remote file. This allows the use of + '--timestamping' on subsequent invocations of wget. However, it is sometimes useful to base the local file's timestamp on when it was actually downloaded; for that purpose, the - `--no-use-server-timestamps' option has been provided. + '--no-use-server-timestamps' option has been provided. -`-S' -`--server-response' +'-S' +'--server-response' Print the headers sent by HTTP servers and responses sent by FTP servers. -`--spider' +'--spider' When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web "spider", which means that it will not download the pages, just check that they are there. For example, you can use Wget to check your @@ -616,57 +617,56 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi This feature needs much more work for Wget to get close to the functionality of real web spiders. -`-T seconds' -`--timeout=SECONDS' +'-T seconds' +'--timeout=SECONDS' Set the network timeout to SECONDS seconds. This is equivalent to - specifying `--dns-timeout', `--connect-timeout', and - `--read-timeout', all at the same time. + specifying '--dns-timeout', '--connect-timeout', and + '--read-timeout', all at the same time. When interacting with the network, Wget can check for timeout and abort the operation if it takes too long. This prevents anomalies - like hanging reads and infinite connects. The only timeout - enabled by default is a 900-second read timeout. Setting a - timeout to 0 disables it altogether. Unless you know what you are - doing, it is best not to change the default timeout settings. + like hanging reads and infinite connects. The only timeout enabled + by default is a 900-second read timeout. Setting a timeout to 0 + disables it altogether. Unless you know what you are doing, it is + best not to change the default timeout settings. All timeout-related options accept decimal values, as well as - subsecond values. For example, `0.1' seconds is a legal (though + subsecond values. For example, '0.1' seconds is a legal (though unwise) choice of timeout. Subsecond timeouts are useful for checking server response times or for testing network latency. -`--dns-timeout=SECONDS' +'--dns-timeout=SECONDS' Set the DNS lookup timeout to SECONDS seconds. DNS lookups that don't complete within the specified time will fail. By default, there is no timeout on DNS lookups, other than that implemented by system libraries. -`--connect-timeout=SECONDS' +'--connect-timeout=SECONDS' Set the connect timeout to SECONDS seconds. TCP connections that take longer to establish will be aborted. By default, there is no connect timeout, other than that implemented by system libraries. -`--read-timeout=SECONDS' - Set the read (and write) timeout to SECONDS seconds. The "time" - of this timeout refers to "idle time": if, at any point in the - download, no data is received for more than the specified number - of seconds, reading fails and the download is restarted. This - option does not directly affect the duration of the entire - download. +'--read-timeout=SECONDS' + Set the read (and write) timeout to SECONDS seconds. The "time" of + this timeout refers to "idle time": if, at any point in the + download, no data is received for more than the specified number of + seconds, reading fails and the download is restarted. This option + does not directly affect the duration of the entire download. Of course, the remote server may choose to terminate the connection sooner than this option requires. The default read timeout is 900 seconds. -`--limit-rate=AMOUNT' - Limit the download speed to AMOUNT bytes per second. Amount may - be expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the `k' suffix, or megabytes - with the `m' suffix. For example, `--limit-rate=20k' will limit +'--limit-rate=AMOUNT' + Limit the download speed to AMOUNT bytes per second. Amount may be + expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the 'k' suffix, or megabytes + with the 'm' suffix. For example, '--limit-rate=20k' will limit the retrieval rate to 20KB/s. This is useful when, for whatever reason, you don't want Wget to consume the entire available bandwidth. This option allows the use of decimal numbers, usually in - conjunction with power suffixes; for example, `--limit-rate=2.5k' + conjunction with power suffixes; for example, '--limit-rate=2.5k' is a legal value. Note that Wget implements the limiting by sleeping the appropriate @@ -674,75 +674,74 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi specified by the rate. Eventually this strategy causes the TCP transfer to slow down to approximately the specified rate. However, it may take some time for this balance to be achieved, so - don't be surprised if limiting the rate doesn't work well with - very small files. + don't be surprised if limiting the rate doesn't work well with very + small files. -`-w SECONDS' -`--wait=SECONDS' +'-w SECONDS' +'--wait=SECONDS' Wait the specified number of seconds between the retrievals. Use of this option is recommended, as it lightens the server load by - making the requests less frequent. Instead of in seconds, the - time can be specified in minutes using the `m' suffix, in hours - using `h' suffix, or in days using `d' suffix. + making the requests less frequent. Instead of in seconds, the time + can be specified in minutes using the 'm' suffix, in hours using + 'h' suffix, or in days using 'd' suffix. Specifying a large value for this option is useful if the network or the destination host is down, so that Wget can wait long enough to reasonably expect the network error to be fixed before the retry. The waiting interval specified by this function is - influenced by `--random-wait', which see. + influenced by '--random-wait', which see. -`--waitretry=SECONDS' +'--waitretry=SECONDS' If you don't want Wget to wait between _every_ retrieval, but only - between retries of failed downloads, you can use this option. - Wget will use "linear backoff", waiting 1 second after the first - failure on a given file, then waiting 2 seconds after the second - failure on that file, up to the maximum number of SECONDS you - specify. + between retries of failed downloads, you can use this option. Wget + will use "linear backoff", waiting 1 second after the first failure + on a given file, then waiting 2 seconds after the second failure on + that file, up to the maximum number of SECONDS you specify. By default, Wget will assume a value of 10 seconds. -`--random-wait' +'--random-wait' Some web sites may perform log analysis to identify retrieval programs such as Wget by looking for statistically significant - similarities in the time between requests. This option causes the + similarities in the time between requests. This option causes the time between requests to vary between 0.5 and 1.5 * WAIT seconds, - where WAIT was specified using the `--wait' option, in order to + where WAIT was specified using the '--wait' option, in order to mask Wget's presence from such analysis. A 2001 article in a publication devoted to development on a popular consumer platform provided code to perform this analysis on the - fly. Its author suggested blocking at the class C address level - to ensure automated retrieval programs were blocked despite - changing DHCP-supplied addresses. + fly. Its author suggested blocking at the class C address level to + ensure automated retrieval programs were blocked despite changing + DHCP-supplied addresses. - The `--random-wait' option was inspired by this ill-advised - recommendation to block many unrelated users from a web site due - to the actions of one. + The '--random-wait' option was inspired by this ill-advised + recommendation to block many unrelated users from a web site due to + the actions of one. -`--no-proxy' - Don't use proxies, even if the appropriate `*_proxy' environment +'--no-proxy' + Don't use proxies, even if the appropriate '*_proxy' environment variable is defined. For more information about the use of proxies with Wget, *Note Proxies::. -`-Q QUOTA' -`--quota=QUOTA' +'-Q QUOTA' +'--quota=QUOTA' Specify download quota for automatic retrievals. The value can be - specified in bytes (default), kilobytes (with `k' suffix), or - megabytes (with `m' suffix). + specified in bytes (default), kilobytes (with 'k' suffix), or + megabytes (with 'm' suffix). - Note that quota will never affect downloading a single file. So - if you specify `wget -Q10k ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/ls-lR.gz', - all of the `ls-lR.gz' will be downloaded. The same goes even when - several URLs are specified on the command-line. However, quota is + Note that quota will never affect downloading a single file. So if + you specify 'wget -Q10k ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/ls-lR.gz', all of + the 'ls-lR.gz' will be downloaded. The same goes even when several + URLs are specified on the command-line. However, quota is respected when retrieving either recursively, or from an input - file. Thus you may safely type `wget -Q2m -i sites'--download - will be aborted when the quota is exceeded. + file. Thus you may safely type 'wget -Q2m -i sites'--download will + be aborted when the quota is exceeded. - Setting quota to 0 or to `inf' unlimits the download quota. + Setting quota to 0 or to 'inf' unlimits the download quota. -`--no-dns-cache' +'--no-dns-cache' Turn off caching of DNS lookups. Normally, Wget remembers the IP addresses it looked up from DNS so it doesn't have to repeatedly contact the DNS server for the same (typically small) set of hosts @@ -752,8 +751,8 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi However, it has been reported that in some situations it is not desirable to cache host names, even for the duration of a short-running application like Wget. With this option Wget issues - a new DNS lookup (more precisely, a new call to `gethostbyname' or - `getaddrinfo') each time it makes a new connection. Please note + a new DNS lookup (more precisely, a new call to 'gethostbyname' or + 'getaddrinfo') each time it makes a new connection. Please note that this option will _not_ affect caching that might be performed by the resolving library or by an external caching layer, such as NSCD. @@ -761,162 +760,164 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi If you don't understand exactly what this option does, you probably won't need it. -`--restrict-file-names=MODES' +'--restrict-file-names=MODES' Change which characters found in remote URLs must be escaped during - generation of local filenames. Characters that are "restricted" - by this option are escaped, i.e. replaced with `%HH', where `HH' - is the hexadecimal number that corresponds to the restricted - character. This option may also be used to force all alphabetical + generation of local filenames. Characters that are "restricted" by + this option are escaped, i.e. replaced with '%HH', where 'HH' is + the hexadecimal number that corresponds to the restricted + character. This option may also be used to force all alphabetical cases to be either lower- or uppercase. By default, Wget escapes the characters that are not valid or safe as part of file names on your operating system, as well as control characters that are typically unprintable. This option is useful - for changing these defaults, perhaps because you are downloading - to a non-native partition, or because you want to disable escaping - of the control characters, or you want to further restrict - characters to only those in the ASCII range of values. - - The MODES are a comma-separated set of text values. The acceptable - values are `unix', `windows', `nocontrol', `ascii', `lowercase', - and `uppercase'. The values `unix' and `windows' are mutually - exclusive (one will override the other), as are `lowercase' and - `uppercase'. Those last are special cases, as they do not change + for changing these defaults, perhaps because you are downloading to + a non-native partition, or because you want to disable escaping of + the control characters, or you want to further restrict characters + to only those in the ASCII range of values. + + The MODES are a comma-separated set of text values. The acceptable + values are 'unix', 'windows', 'nocontrol', 'ascii', 'lowercase', + and 'uppercase'. The values 'unix' and 'windows' are mutually + exclusive (one will override the other), as are 'lowercase' and + 'uppercase'. Those last are special cases, as they do not change the set of characters that would be escaped, but rather force local file paths to be converted either to lower- or uppercase. - When "unix" is specified, Wget escapes the character `/' and the + When "unix" is specified, Wget escapes the character '/' and the control characters in the ranges 0-31 and 128-159. This is the default on Unix-like operating systems. - When "windows" is given, Wget escapes the characters `\', `|', - `/', `:', `?', `"', `*', `<', `>', and the control characters in - the ranges 0-31 and 128-159. In addition to this, Wget in Windows - mode uses `+' instead of `:' to separate host and port in local - file names, and uses `@' instead of `?' to separate the query - portion of the file name from the rest. Therefore, a URL that - would be saved as `www.xemacs.org:4300/search.pl?input=blah' in - Unix mode would be saved as - `www.xemacs.org+4300/search.pl@input=blah' in Windows mode. This - mode is the default on Windows. - - If you specify `nocontrol', then the escaping of the control - characters is also switched off. This option may make sense when - you are downloading URLs whose names contain UTF-8 characters, on - a system which can save and display filenames in UTF-8 (some - possible byte values used in UTF-8 byte sequences fall in the - range of values designated by Wget as "controls"). - - The `ascii' mode is used to specify that any bytes whose values - are outside the range of ASCII characters (that is, greater than - 127) shall be escaped. This can be useful when saving filenames - whose encoding does not match the one used locally. - -`-4' -`--inet4-only' -`-6' -`--inet6-only' - Force connecting to IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. With `--inet4-only' - or `-4', Wget will only connect to IPv4 hosts, ignoring AAAA - records in DNS, and refusing to connect to IPv6 addresses - specified in URLs. Conversely, with `--inet6-only' or `-6', Wget - will only connect to IPv6 hosts and ignore A records and IPv4 - addresses. + When "windows" is given, Wget escapes the characters '\', '|', '/', + ':', '?', '"', '*', '<', '>', and the control characters in the + ranges 0-31 and 128-159. In addition to this, Wget in Windows mode + uses '+' instead of ':' to separate host and port in local file + names, and uses '@' instead of '?' to separate the query portion of + the file name from the rest. Therefore, a URL that would be saved + as 'www.xemacs.org:4300/search.pl?input=blah' in Unix mode would be + saved as 'www.xemacs.org+4300/search.pl@input=blah' in Windows + mode. This mode is the default on Windows. + + If you specify 'nocontrol', then the escaping of the control + characters is also switched off. This option may make sense when + you are downloading URLs whose names contain UTF-8 characters, on a + system which can save and display filenames in UTF-8 (some possible + byte values used in UTF-8 byte sequences fall in the range of + values designated by Wget as "controls"). + + The 'ascii' mode is used to specify that any bytes whose values are + outside the range of ASCII characters (that is, greater than 127) + shall be escaped. This can be useful when saving filenames whose + encoding does not match the one used locally. + +'-4' +'--inet4-only' +'-6' +'--inet6-only' + Force connecting to IPv4 or IPv6 addresses. With '--inet4-only' or + '-4', Wget will only connect to IPv4 hosts, ignoring AAAA records + in DNS, and refusing to connect to IPv6 addresses specified in + URLs. Conversely, with '--inet6-only' or '-6', Wget will only + connect to IPv6 hosts and ignore A records and IPv4 addresses. Neither options should be needed normally. By default, an - IPv6-aware Wget will use the address family specified by the - host's DNS record. If the DNS responds with both IPv4 and IPv6 - addresses, Wget will try them in sequence until it finds one it - can connect to. (Also see `--prefer-family' option described - below.) + IPv6-aware Wget will use the address family specified by the host's + DNS record. If the DNS responds with both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, + Wget will try them in sequence until it finds one it can connect + to. (Also see '--prefer-family' option described below.) These options can be used to deliberately force the use of IPv4 or IPv6 address families on dual family systems, usually to aid debugging or to deal with broken network configuration. Only one - of `--inet6-only' and `--inet4-only' may be specified at the same + of '--inet6-only' and '--inet4-only' may be specified at the same time. Neither option is available in Wget compiled without IPv6 support. -`--prefer-family=none/IPv4/IPv6' +'--prefer-family=none/IPv4/IPv6' When given a choice of several addresses, connect to the addresses with specified address family first. The address order returned by DNS is used without change by default. This avoids spurious errors and connect attempts when accessing hosts that resolve to both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses from IPv4 - networks. For example, `www.kame.net' resolves to - `2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085' and to `203.178.141.194'. - When the preferred family is `IPv4', the IPv4 address is used - first; when the preferred family is `IPv6', the IPv6 address is - used first; if the specified value is `none', the address order + networks. For example, 'www.kame.net' resolves to + '2001:200:0:8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085' and to '203.178.141.194'. + When the preferred family is 'IPv4', the IPv4 address is used + first; when the preferred family is 'IPv6', the IPv6 address is + used first; if the specified value is 'none', the address order returned by DNS is used without change. - Unlike `-4' and `-6', this option doesn't inhibit access to any + Unlike '-4' and '-6', this option doesn't inhibit access to any address family, it only changes the _order_ in which the addresses are accessed. Also note that the reordering performed by this option is "stable"--it doesn't affect order of addresses of the - same family. That is, the relative order of all IPv4 addresses - and of all IPv6 addresses remains intact in all cases. + same family. That is, the relative order of all IPv4 addresses and + of all IPv6 addresses remains intact in all cases. -`--retry-connrefused' +'--retry-connrefused' Consider "connection refused" a transient error and try again. Normally Wget gives up on a URL when it is unable to connect to the site because failure to connect is taken as a sign that the server - is not running at all and that retries would not help. This - option is for mirroring unreliable sites whose servers tend to - disappear for short periods of time. + is not running at all and that retries would not help. This option + is for mirroring unreliable sites whose servers tend to disappear + for short periods of time. -`--user=USER' -`--password=PASSWORD' +'--user=USER' +'--password=PASSWORD' Specify the username USER and password PASSWORD for both FTP and HTTP file retrieval. These parameters can be overridden using the - `--ftp-user' and `--ftp-password' options for FTP connections and - the `--http-user' and `--http-password' options for HTTP + '--ftp-user' and '--ftp-password' options for FTP connections and + the '--http-user' and '--http-password' options for HTTP connections. -`--ask-password' - Prompt for a password for each connection established. Cannot be - specified when `--password' is being used, because they are +'--ask-password' + Prompt for a password for each connection established. Cannot be + specified when '--password' is being used, because they are mutually exclusive. -`--no-iri' - Turn off internationalized URI (IRI) support. Use `--iri' to turn - it on. IRI support is activated by default. +'--no-iri' + + Turn off internationalized URI (IRI) support. Use '--iri' to turn + it on. IRI support is activated by default. - You can set the default state of IRI support using the `iri' - command in `.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the + You can set the default state of IRI support using the 'iri' + command in '.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the command line. -`--local-encoding=ENCODING' - Force Wget to use ENCODING as the default system encoding. That +'--local-encoding=ENCODING' + + Force Wget to use ENCODING as the default system encoding. That affects how Wget converts URLs specified as arguments from locale to UTF-8 for IRI support. - Wget use the function `nl_langinfo()' and then the `CHARSET' - environment variable to get the locale. If it fails, ASCII is used. + Wget use the function 'nl_langinfo()' and then the 'CHARSET' + environment variable to get the locale. If it fails, ASCII is + used. - You can set the default local encoding using the `local_encoding' - command in `.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the + You can set the default local encoding using the 'local_encoding' + command in '.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the command line. -`--remote-encoding=ENCODING' +'--remote-encoding=ENCODING' + Force Wget to use ENCODING as the default remote server encoding. That affects how Wget converts URIs found in files from remote - encoding to UTF-8 during a recursive fetch. This options is only + encoding to UTF-8 during a recursive fetch. This options is only useful for IRI support, for the interpretation of non-ASCII characters. - For HTTP, remote encoding can be found in HTTP `Content-Type' - header and in HTML `Content-Type http-equiv' meta tag. + For HTTP, remote encoding can be found in HTTP 'Content-Type' + header and in HTML 'Content-Type http-equiv' meta tag. - You can set the default encoding using the `remoteencoding' - command in `.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the - command line. + You can set the default encoding using the 'remoteencoding' command + in '.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the command + line. -`--unlink' - Force Wget to unlink file instead of clobbering existing file. This - option is useful for downloading to the directory with hardlinks. +'--unlink' + Force Wget to unlink file instead of clobbering existing file. + This option is useful for downloading to the directory with + hardlinks. File: wget.info, Node: Directory Options, Next: HTTP Options, Prev: Download Options, Up: Invoking @@ -924,45 +925,44 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Directory Options, Next: HTTP Options, Prev: Download 2.6 Directory Options ===================== -`-nd' -`--no-directories' +'-nd' +'--no-directories' Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively. With this option turned on, all files will get saved to the current directory, without clobbering (if a name shows up - more than once, the filenames will get extensions `.n'). + more than once, the filenames will get extensions '.n'). -`-x' -`--force-directories' - The opposite of `-nd'--create a hierarchy of directories, even if - one would not have been created otherwise. E.g. `wget -x +'-x' +'--force-directories' + The opposite of '-nd'--create a hierarchy of directories, even if + one would not have been created otherwise. E.g. 'wget -x http://fly.srk.fer.hr/robots.txt' will save the downloaded file to - `fly.srk.fer.hr/robots.txt'. + 'fly.srk.fer.hr/robots.txt'. -`-nH' -`--no-host-directories' +'-nH' +'--no-host-directories' Disable generation of host-prefixed directories. By default, - invoking Wget with `-r http://fly.srk.fer.hr/' will create a - structure of directories beginning with `fly.srk.fer.hr/'. This + invoking Wget with '-r http://fly.srk.fer.hr/' will create a + structure of directories beginning with 'fly.srk.fer.hr/'. This option disables such behavior. -`--protocol-directories' - Use the protocol name as a directory component of local file - names. For example, with this option, `wget -r http://HOST' will - save to `http/HOST/...' rather than just to `HOST/...'. +'--protocol-directories' + Use the protocol name as a directory component of local file names. + For example, with this option, 'wget -r http://HOST' will save to + 'http/HOST/...' rather than just to 'HOST/...'. -`--cut-dirs=NUMBER' +'--cut-dirs=NUMBER' Ignore NUMBER directory components. This is useful for getting a fine-grained control over the directory where recursive retrieval will be saved. Take, for example, the directory at - `ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/'. If you retrieve it with `-r', - it will be saved locally under `ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/'. - While the `-nH' option can remove the `ftp.xemacs.org/' part, you - are still stuck with `pub/xemacs'. This is where `--cut-dirs' - comes in handy; it makes Wget not "see" NUMBER remote directory - components. Here are several examples of how `--cut-dirs' option - works. + 'ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/'. If you retrieve it with '-r', + it will be saved locally under 'ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/'. While + the '-nH' option can remove the 'ftp.xemacs.org/' part, you are + still stuck with 'pub/xemacs'. This is where '--cut-dirs' comes in + handy; it makes Wget not "see" NUMBER remote directory components. + Here are several examples of how '--cut-dirs' option works. No options -> ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/ -nH -> pub/xemacs/ @@ -972,17 +972,17 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Directory Options, Next: HTTP Options, Prev: Download --cut-dirs=1 -> ftp.xemacs.org/xemacs/ ... - If you just want to get rid of the directory structure, this - option is similar to a combination of `-nd' and `-P'. However, - unlike `-nd', `--cut-dirs' does not lose with subdirectories--for - instance, with `-nH --cut-dirs=1', a `beta/' subdirectory will be - placed to `xemacs/beta', as one would expect. + If you just want to get rid of the directory structure, this option + is similar to a combination of '-nd' and '-P'. However, unlike + '-nd', '--cut-dirs' does not lose with subdirectories--for + instance, with '-nH --cut-dirs=1', a 'beta/' subdirectory will be + placed to 'xemacs/beta', as one would expect. -`-P PREFIX' -`--directory-prefix=PREFIX' +'-P PREFIX' +'--directory-prefix=PREFIX' Set directory prefix to PREFIX. The "directory prefix" is the directory where all other files and subdirectories will be saved - to, i.e. the top of the retrieval tree. The default is `.' (the + to, i.e. the top of the retrieval tree. The default is '.' (the current directory). @@ -991,56 +991,55 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir 2.7 HTTP Options ================ -`--default-page=NAME' +'--default-page=NAME' Use NAME as the default file name when it isn't known (i.e., for - URLs that end in a slash), instead of `index.html'. + URLs that end in a slash), instead of 'index.html'. -`-E' -`--adjust-extension' - If a file of type `application/xhtml+xml' or `text/html' is +'-E' +'--adjust-extension' + If a file of type 'application/xhtml+xml' or 'text/html' is downloaded and the URL does not end with the regexp - `\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?', this option will cause the suffix `.html' - to be appended to the local filename. This is useful, for - instance, when you're mirroring a remote site that uses `.asp' - pages, but you want the mirrored pages to be viewable on your - stock Apache server. Another good use for this is when you're - downloading CGI-generated materials. A URL like - `http://site.com/article.cgi?25' will be saved as - `article.cgi?25.html'. - - Note that filenames changed in this way will be re-downloaded - every time you re-mirror a site, because Wget can't tell that the - local `X.html' file corresponds to remote URL `X' (since it - doesn't yet know that the URL produces output of type `text/html' - or `application/xhtml+xml'. - - As of version 1.12, Wget will also ensure that any downloaded - files of type `text/css' end in the suffix `.css', and the option - was renamed from `--html-extension', to better reflect its new - behavior. The old option name is still acceptable, but should now + '\.[Hh][Tt][Mm][Ll]?', this option will cause the suffix '.html' to + be appended to the local filename. This is useful, for instance, + when you're mirroring a remote site that uses '.asp' pages, but you + want the mirrored pages to be viewable on your stock Apache server. + Another good use for this is when you're downloading CGI-generated + materials. A URL like 'http://site.com/article.cgi?25' will be + saved as 'article.cgi?25.html'. + + Note that filenames changed in this way will be re-downloaded every + time you re-mirror a site, because Wget can't tell that the local + 'X.html' file corresponds to remote URL 'X' (since it doesn't yet + know that the URL produces output of type 'text/html' or + 'application/xhtml+xml'. + + As of version 1.12, Wget will also ensure that any downloaded files + of type 'text/css' end in the suffix '.css', and the option was + renamed from '--html-extension', to better reflect its new + behavior. The old option name is still acceptable, but should now be considered deprecated. At some point in the future, this option may well be expanded to include suffixes for other types of content, including content types that are not parsed by Wget. -`--http-user=USER' -`--http-password=PASSWORD' +'--http-user=USER' +'--http-password=PASSWORD' Specify the username USER and password PASSWORD on an HTTP server. - According to the type of the challenge, Wget will encode them - using either the `basic' (insecure), the `digest', or the Windows - `NTLM' authentication scheme. + According to the type of the challenge, Wget will encode them using + either the 'basic' (insecure), the 'digest', or the Windows 'NTLM' + authentication scheme. Another way to specify username and password is in the URL itself (*note URL Format::). Either method reveals your password to - anyone who bothers to run `ps'. To prevent the passwords from - being seen, store them in `.wgetrc' or `.netrc', and make sure to - protect those files from other users with `chmod'. If the + anyone who bothers to run 'ps'. To prevent the passwords from + being seen, store them in '.wgetrc' or '.netrc', and make sure to + protect those files from other users with 'chmod'. If the passwords are really important, do not leave them lying in those - files either--edit the files and delete them after Wget has - started the download. + files either--edit the files and delete them after Wget has started + the download. -`--no-http-keep-alive' +'--no-http-keep-alive' Turn off the "keep-alive" feature for HTTP downloads. Normally, Wget asks the server to keep the connection open so that, when you download more than one document from the same server, they get @@ -1052,29 +1051,29 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir server bug or due to the inability of server-side scripts to cope with the connections. -`--no-cache' +'--no-cache' Disable server-side cache. In this case, Wget will send the remote - server an appropriate directive (`Pragma: no-cache') to get the + server an appropriate directive ('Pragma: no-cache') to get the file from the remote service, rather than returning the cached version. This is especially useful for retrieving and flushing out-of-date documents on proxy servers. Caching is allowed by default. -`--no-cookies' +'--no-cookies' Disable the use of cookies. Cookies are a mechanism for maintaining server-side state. The server sends the client a - cookie using the `Set-Cookie' header, and the client responds with + cookie using the 'Set-Cookie' header, and the client responds with the same cookie upon further requests. Since cookies allow the server owners to keep track of visitors and for sites to exchange this information, some consider them a breach of privacy. The default is to use cookies; however, _storing_ cookies is not on by default. -`--load-cookies FILE' +'--load-cookies FILE' Load cookies from FILE before the first HTTP retrieval. FILE is a textual file in the format originally used by Netscape's - `cookies.txt' file. + 'cookies.txt' file. You will typically use this option when mirroring sites that require that you be logged in to access some or all of their @@ -1085,32 +1084,32 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir Mirroring such a site requires Wget to send the same cookies your browser sends when communicating with the site. This is achieved - by `--load-cookies'--simply point Wget to the location of the - `cookies.txt' file, and it will send the same cookies your browser + by '--load-cookies'--simply point Wget to the location of the + 'cookies.txt' file, and it will send the same cookies your browser would send in the same situation. Different browsers keep textual cookie files in different locations: - Netscape 4.x. - The cookies are in `~/.netscape/cookies.txt'. + Netscape 4.x. + The cookies are in '~/.netscape/cookies.txt'. - Mozilla and Netscape 6.x. - Mozilla's cookie file is also named `cookies.txt', located - somewhere under `~/.mozilla', in the directory of your + Mozilla and Netscape 6.x. + Mozilla's cookie file is also named 'cookies.txt', located + somewhere under '~/.mozilla', in the directory of your profile. The full path usually ends up looking somewhat like - `~/.mozilla/default/SOME-WEIRD-STRING/cookies.txt'. + '~/.mozilla/default/SOME-WEIRD-STRING/cookies.txt'. - Internet Explorer. + Internet Explorer. You can produce a cookie file Wget can use by using the File - menu, Import and Export, Export Cookies. This has been - tested with Internet Explorer 5; it is not guaranteed to work - with earlier versions. + menu, Import and Export, Export Cookies. This has been tested + with Internet Explorer 5; it is not guaranteed to work with + earlier versions. - Other browsers. + Other browsers. If you are using a different browser to create your cookies, - `--load-cookies' will only work if you can locate or produce a + '--load-cookies' will only work if you can locate or produce a cookie file in the Netscape format that Wget expects. - If you cannot use `--load-cookies', there might still be an + If you cannot use '--load-cookies', there might still be an alternative. If your browser supports a "cookie manager", you can use it to view the cookies used when accessing the site you're mirroring. Write down the name and value of the cookie, and @@ -1119,13 +1118,13 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir wget --no-cookies --header "Cookie: NAME=VALUE" -`--save-cookies FILE' +'--save-cookies FILE' Save cookies to FILE before exiting. This will not save cookies that have expired or that have no expiry time (so-called "session - cookies"), but also see `--keep-session-cookies'. + cookies"), but also see '--keep-session-cookies'. -`--keep-session-cookies' - When specified, causes `--save-cookies' to also save session +'--keep-session-cookies' + When specified, causes '--save-cookies' to also save session cookies. Session cookies are normally not saved because they are meant to be kept in memory and forgotten when you exit the browser. Saving them is useful on sites that require you to log in or to @@ -1135,31 +1134,31 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir Since the cookie file format does not normally carry session cookies, Wget marks them with an expiry timestamp of 0. Wget's - `--load-cookies' recognizes those as session cookies, but it might + '--load-cookies' recognizes those as session cookies, but it might confuse other browsers. Also note that cookies so loaded will be treated as other session cookies, which means that if you want - `--save-cookies' to preserve them again, you must use - `--keep-session-cookies' again. - -`--ignore-length' - Unfortunately, some HTTP servers (CGI programs, to be more - precise) send out bogus `Content-Length' headers, which makes Wget - go wild, as it thinks not all the document was retrieved. You can - spot this syndrome if Wget retries getting the same document again - and again, each time claiming that the (otherwise normal) - connection has closed on the very same byte. - - With this option, Wget will ignore the `Content-Length' header--as + '--save-cookies' to preserve them again, you must use + '--keep-session-cookies' again. + +'--ignore-length' + Unfortunately, some HTTP servers (CGI programs, to be more precise) + send out bogus 'Content-Length' headers, which makes Wget go wild, + as it thinks not all the document was retrieved. You can spot this + syndrome if Wget retries getting the same document again and again, + each time claiming that the (otherwise normal) connection has + closed on the very same byte. + + With this option, Wget will ignore the 'Content-Length' header--as if it never existed. -`--header=HEADER-LINE' +'--header=HEADER-LINE' Send HEADER-LINE along with the rest of the headers in each HTTP request. The supplied header is sent as-is, which means it must contain name and value separated by colon, and must not contain newlines. You may define more than one additional header by specifying - `--header' more than once. + '--header' more than once. wget --header='Accept-Charset: iso-8859-2' \ --header='Accept-Language: hr' \ @@ -1170,98 +1169,105 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir As of Wget 1.10, this option can be used to override headers otherwise generated automatically. This example instructs Wget to - connect to localhost, but to specify `foo.bar' in the `Host' + connect to localhost, but to specify 'foo.bar' in the 'Host' header: wget --header="Host: foo.bar" http://localhost/ - In versions of Wget prior to 1.10 such use of `--header' caused + In versions of Wget prior to 1.10 such use of '--header' caused sending of duplicate headers. -`--max-redirect=NUMBER' +'--max-redirect=NUMBER' Specifies the maximum number of redirections to follow for a resource. The default is 20, which is usually far more than - necessary. However, on those occasions where you want to allow + necessary. However, on those occasions where you want to allow more (or fewer), this is the option to use. -`--proxy-user=USER' -`--proxy-password=PASSWORD' +'--proxy-user=USER' +'--proxy-password=PASSWORD' Specify the username USER and password PASSWORD for authentication - on a proxy server. Wget will encode them using the `basic' + on a proxy server. Wget will encode them using the 'basic' authentication scheme. - Security considerations similar to those with `--http-password' + Security considerations similar to those with '--http-password' pertain here as well. -`--referer=URL' - Include `Referer: URL' header in HTTP request. Useful for +'--referer=URL' + Include 'Referer: URL' header in HTTP request. Useful for retrieving documents with server-side processing that assume they are always being retrieved by interactive web browsers and only come out properly when Referer is set to one of the pages that point to them. -`--save-headers' +'--save-headers' Save the headers sent by the HTTP server to the file, preceding the actual contents, with an empty line as the separator. -`-U AGENT-STRING' -`--user-agent=AGENT-STRING' +'-U AGENT-STRING' +'--user-agent=AGENT-STRING' Identify as AGENT-STRING to the HTTP server. The HTTP protocol allows the clients to identify themselves using a - `User-Agent' header field. This enables distinguishing the WWW + 'User-Agent' header field. This enables distinguishing the WWW software, usually for statistical purposes or for tracing of - protocol violations. Wget normally identifies as `Wget/VERSION', + protocol violations. Wget normally identifies as 'Wget/VERSION', VERSION being the current version number of Wget. However, some sites have been known to impose the policy of - tailoring the output according to the `User-Agent'-supplied + tailoring the output according to the 'User-Agent'-supplied information. While this is not such a bad idea in theory, it has been abused by servers denying information to clients other than (historically) Netscape or, more frequently, Microsoft Internet - Explorer. This option allows you to change the `User-Agent' line + Explorer. This option allows you to change the 'User-Agent' line issued by Wget. Use of this option is discouraged, unless you really know what you are doing. - Specifying empty user agent with `--user-agent=""' instructs Wget - not to send the `User-Agent' header in HTTP requests. + Specifying empty user agent with '--user-agent=""' instructs Wget + not to send the 'User-Agent' header in HTTP requests. -`--post-data=STRING' -`--post-file=FILE' +'--post-data=STRING' +'--post-file=FILE' Use POST as the method for all HTTP requests and send the specified - data in the request body. `--post-data' sends STRING as data, - whereas `--post-file' sends the contents of FILE. Other than - that, they work in exactly the same way. In particular, they - _both_ expect content of the form `key1=value1&key2=value2', with + data in the request body. '--post-data' sends STRING as data, + whereas '--post-file' sends the contents of FILE. Other than that, + they work in exactly the same way. In particular, they _both_ + expect content of the form 'key1=value1&key2=value2', with percent-encoding for special characters; the only difference is that one expects its content as a command-line parameter and the - other accepts its content from a file. In particular, - `--post-file' is _not_ for transmitting files as form attachments: - those must appear as `key=value' data (with appropriate - percent-coding) just like everything else. Wget does not currently - support `multipart/form-data' for transmitting POST data; only - `application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. Only one of `--post-data' and - `--post-file' should be specified. + other accepts its content from a file. In particular, + '--post-file' is _not_ for transmitting files as form attachments: + those must appear as 'key=value' data (with appropriate + percent-coding) just like everything else. Wget does not currently + support 'multipart/form-data' for transmitting POST data; only + 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. Only one of '--post-data' and + '--post-file' should be specified. + + Please note that wget does not require the content to be of the + form 'key1=value1&key2=value2', and neither does it test for it. + Wget will simply transmit whatever data is provided to it. Most + servers however expect the POST data to be in the above format when + processing HTML Forms. Please be aware that Wget needs to know the size of the POST data - in advance. Therefore the argument to `--post-file' must be a - regular file; specifying a FIFO or something like `/dev/stdin' + in advance. Therefore the argument to '--post-file' must be a + regular file; specifying a FIFO or something like '/dev/stdin' won't work. It's not quite clear how to work around this limitation inherent in HTTP/1.0. Although HTTP/1.1 introduces "chunked" transfer that doesn't require knowing the request length - in advance, a client can't use chunked unless it knows it's - talking to an HTTP/1.1 server. And it can't know that until it - receives a response, which in turn requires the request to have - been completed - a chicken-and-egg problem. - - Note: if Wget is redirected after the POST request is completed, it - will not send the POST data to the redirected URL. This is because - URLs that process POST often respond with a redirection to a - regular page, which does not desire or accept POST. It is not - completely clear that this behavior is optimal; if it doesn't work - out, it might be changed in the future. - - This example shows how to log to a server using POST and then + in advance, a client can't use chunked unless it knows it's talking + to an HTTP/1.1 server. And it can't know that until it receives a + response, which in turn requires the request to have been completed + - a chicken-and-egg problem. + + Note: As of version 1.15 if Wget is redirected after the POST + request is completed, its behaviour will depend on the response + code returned by the server. In case of a 301 Moved Permanently, + 302 Moved Temporarily or 307 Temporary Redirect, Wget will, in + accordance with RFC2616, continue to send a POST request. In case + a server wants the client to change the Request method upon + redirection, it should send a 303 See Other response code. + + This example shows how to log in to a server using POST and then proceed to download the desired pages, presumably only accessible to authorized users: @@ -1275,33 +1281,70 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir -p http://server.com/interesting/article.php If the server is using session cookies to track user - authentication, the above will not work because `--save-cookies' + authentication, the above will not work because '--save-cookies' will not save them (and neither will browsers) and the - `cookies.txt' file will be empty. In that case use - `--keep-session-cookies' along with `--save-cookies' to force + 'cookies.txt' file will be empty. In that case use + '--keep-session-cookies' along with '--save-cookies' to force saving of session cookies. -`--content-disposition' +'--method=HTTP-METHOD' + For the purpose of RESTful scripting, Wget allows sending of other + HTTP Methods without the need to explicitly set them using + '--header=Header-Line'. Wget will use whatever string is passed to + it after '--method' as the HTTP Method to the server. + +'--body-data=DATA-STRING' +'--body-file=DATA-FILE' + Must be set when additional data needs to be sent to the server + along with the Method specified using '--method'. '--body-data' + sends STRING as data, whereas '--body-file' sends the contents of + FILE. Other than that, they work in exactly the same way. + + Currently, '--body-file' is _not_ for transmitting files as a + whole. Wget does not currently support 'multipart/form-data' for + transmitting data; only 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'. In + the future, this may be changed so that wget sends the + '--body-file' as a complete file instead of sending its contents to + the server. Please be aware that Wget needs to know the contents + of BODY Data in advance, and hence the argument to '--body-file' + should be a regular file. See '--post-file' for a more detailed + explanation. Only one of '--body-data' and '--body-file' should be + specified. + + If Wget is redirected after the request is completed, Wget will + suspend the current method and send a GET request till the + redirection is completed. This is true for all redirection + response codes except 307 Temporary Redirect which is used to + explicitly specify that the request method should _not_ change. + Another exception is when the method is set to 'POST', in which + case the redirection rules specified under '--post-data' are + followed. + +'--content-disposition' + If this is set to on, experimental (not fully-functional) support - for `Content-Disposition' headers is enabled. This can currently - result in extra round-trips to the server for a `HEAD' request, - and is known to suffer from a few bugs, which is why it is not + for 'Content-Disposition' headers is enabled. This can currently + result in extra round-trips to the server for a 'HEAD' request, and + is known to suffer from a few bugs, which is why it is not currently enabled by default. This option is useful for some file-downloading CGI programs that - use `Content-Disposition' headers to describe what the name of a + use 'Content-Disposition' headers to describe what the name of a downloaded file should be. -`--content-on-error' +'--content-on-error' + If this is set to on, wget will not skip the content when the server responds with a http status code that indicates error. -`--trust-server-names' +'--trust-server-names' + If this is set to on, on a redirect the last component of the - redirection URL will be used as the local file name. By default - it is used the last component in the original URL. + redirection URL will be used as the local file name. By default it + is used the last component in the original URL. + +'--auth-no-challenge' -`--auth-no-challenge' If this option is given, Wget will send Basic HTTP authentication information (plaintext username and password) for all requests, just like Wget 1.10.2 and prior did by default. @@ -1311,7 +1354,6 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir authentication challenges, but accept unsolicited auth info, say, in addition to form-based authentication. - File: wget.info, Node: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Next: FTP Options, Prev: HTTP Options, Up: Invoking @@ -1319,23 +1361,32 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Next: FTP Options, Prev: HTTP =========================== To support encrypted HTTP (HTTPS) downloads, Wget must be compiled with -an external SSL library, currently OpenSSL. If Wget is compiled -without SSL support, none of these options are available. +an external SSL library, currently OpenSSL. If Wget is compiled without +SSL support, none of these options are available. -`--secure-protocol=PROTOCOL' - Choose the secure protocol to be used. Legal values are `auto', - `SSLv2', `SSLv3', and `TLSv1'. If `auto' is used, the SSL library - is given the liberty of choosing the appropriate protocol +'--secure-protocol=PROTOCOL' + Choose the secure protocol to be used. Legal values are 'auto', + 'SSLv2', 'SSLv3', 'TLSv1' and 'PFS'. If 'auto' is used, the SSL + library is given the liberty of choosing the appropriate protocol automatically, which is achieved by sending an SSLv2 greeting and announcing support for SSLv3 and TLSv1. This is the default. - Specifying `SSLv2', `SSLv3', or `TLSv1' forces the use of the + Specifying 'SSLv2', 'SSLv3', or 'TLSv1' forces the use of the corresponding protocol. This is useful when talking to old and - buggy SSL server implementations that make it hard for OpenSSL to - choose the correct protocol version. Fortunately, such servers are - quite rare. + buggy SSL server implementations that make it hard for the + underlying SSL library to choose the correct protocol version. + Fortunately, such servers are quite rare. + + Specifying 'PFS' enforces the use of the so-called Perfect Forward + Security cipher suites. In short, PFS adds security by creating a + one-time key for each SSL connection. It has a bit more CPU impact + on client and server. We use known to be secure ciphers (e.g. no + MD4) and the TLS protocol. -`--no-check-certificate' +'--https-only' + When in recursive mode, only HTTPS links are followed. + +'--no-check-certificate' Don't check the server certificate against the available certificate authorities. Also don't require the URL host name to match the common name presented by the certificate. @@ -1359,25 +1410,25 @@ without SSL support, none of these options are available. to check the certificates when transmitting confidential or important data. -`--certificate=FILE' +'--certificate=FILE' Use the client certificate stored in FILE. This is needed for servers that are configured to require certificates from the clients that connect to them. Normally a certificate is not required and this switch is optional. -`--certificate-type=TYPE' - Specify the type of the client certificate. Legal values are - `PEM' (assumed by default) and `DER', also known as `ASN1'. +'--certificate-type=TYPE' + Specify the type of the client certificate. Legal values are 'PEM' + (assumed by default) and 'DER', also known as 'ASN1'. -`--private-key=FILE' +'--private-key=FILE' Read the private key from FILE. This allows you to provide the private key in a file separate from the certificate. -`--private-key-type=TYPE' - Specify the type of the private key. Accepted values are `PEM' - (the default) and `DER'. +'--private-key-type=TYPE' + Specify the type of the private key. Accepted values are 'PEM' + (the default) and 'DER'. -`--ca-certificate=FILE' +'--ca-certificate=FILE' Use FILE as the file with the bundle of certificate authorities ("CA") to verify the peers. The certificates must be in PEM format. @@ -1385,35 +1436,35 @@ without SSL support, none of these options are available. Without this option Wget looks for CA certificates at the system-specified locations, chosen at OpenSSL installation time. -`--ca-directory=DIRECTORY' +'--ca-directory=DIRECTORY' Specifies directory containing CA certificates in PEM format. Each file contains one CA certificate, and the file name is based on a hash value derived from the certificate. This is achieved by - processing a certificate directory with the `c_rehash' utility - supplied with OpenSSL. Using `--ca-directory' is more efficient - than `--ca-certificate' when many certificates are installed + processing a certificate directory with the 'c_rehash' utility + supplied with OpenSSL. Using '--ca-directory' is more efficient + than '--ca-certificate' when many certificates are installed because it allows Wget to fetch certificates on demand. Without this option Wget looks for CA certificates at the system-specified locations, chosen at OpenSSL installation time. -`--random-file=FILE' - Use FILE as the source of random data for seeding the - pseudo-random number generator on systems without `/dev/random'. +'--random-file=FILE' + Use FILE as the source of random data for seeding the pseudo-random + number generator on systems without '/dev/random'. On such systems the SSL library needs an external source of randomness to initialize. Randomness may be provided by EGD (see - `--egd-file' below) or read from an external source specified by + '--egd-file' below) or read from an external source specified by the user. If this option is not specified, Wget looks for random - data in `$RANDFILE' or, if that is unset, in `$HOME/.rnd'. If - none of those are available, it is likely that SSL encryption will - not be usable. + data in '$RANDFILE' or, if that is unset, in '$HOME/.rnd'. If none + of those are available, it is likely that SSL encryption will not + be usable. If you're getting the "Could not seed OpenSSL PRNG; disabling SSL." error, you should provide random data using some of the methods described above. -`--egd-file=FILE' +'--egd-file=FILE' Use FILE as the EGD socket. EGD stands for "Entropy Gathering Daemon", a user-space program that collects data from various unpredictable system sources and makes it available to other @@ -1423,40 +1474,40 @@ without SSL support, none of these options are available. keys. OpenSSL allows the user to specify his own source of entropy using - the `RAND_FILE' environment variable. If this variable is unset, + the 'RAND_FILE' environment variable. If this variable is unset, or if the specified file does not produce enough randomness, OpenSSL will read random data from EGD socket specified using this option. - If this option is not specified (and the equivalent startup - command is not used), EGD is never contacted. EGD is not needed - on modern Unix systems that support `/dev/random'. + If this option is not specified (and the equivalent startup command + is not used), EGD is never contacted. EGD is not needed on modern + Unix systems that support '/dev/random'. -`--warc-file=FILE' +'--warc-file=FILE' Use FILE as the destination WARC file. -`--warc-header=STRING' +'--warc-header=STRING' Use STRING into as the warcinfo record. -`--warc-max-size=SIZE' +'--warc-max-size=SIZE' Set the maximum size of the WARC files to SIZE. -`--warc-cdx' +'--warc-cdx' Write CDX index files. -`--warc-dedup=FILE' +'--warc-dedup=FILE' Do not store records listed in this CDX file. -`--no-warc-compression' +'--no-warc-compression' Do not compress WARC files with GZIP. -`--no-warc-digests' +'--no-warc-digests' Do not calculate SHA1 digests. -`--no-warc-keep-log' +'--no-warc-keep-log' Do not store the log file in a WARC record. -`--warc-tempdir=DIR' +'--warc-tempdir=DIR' Specify the location for temporary files created by the WARC writer. @@ -1466,62 +1517,62 @@ File: wget.info, Node: FTP Options, Next: Recursive Retrieval Options, Prev: 2.9 FTP Options =============== -`--ftp-user=USER' -`--ftp-password=PASSWORD' +'--ftp-user=USER' +'--ftp-password=PASSWORD' Specify the username USER and password PASSWORD on an FTP server. Without this, or the corresponding startup option, the password - defaults to `-wget@', normally used for anonymous FTP. + defaults to '-wget@', normally used for anonymous FTP. Another way to specify username and password is in the URL itself (*note URL Format::). Either method reveals your password to - anyone who bothers to run `ps'. To prevent the passwords from - being seen, store them in `.wgetrc' or `.netrc', and make sure to - protect those files from other users with `chmod'. If the + anyone who bothers to run 'ps'. To prevent the passwords from + being seen, store them in '.wgetrc' or '.netrc', and make sure to + protect those files from other users with 'chmod'. If the passwords are really important, do not leave them lying in those - files either--edit the files and delete them after Wget has - started the download. + files either--edit the files and delete them after Wget has started + the download. -`--no-remove-listing' - Don't remove the temporary `.listing' files generated by FTP +'--no-remove-listing' + Don't remove the temporary '.listing' files generated by FTP retrievals. Normally, these files contain the raw directory listings received from FTP servers. Not removing them can be useful for debugging purposes, or when you want to be able to - easily check on the contents of remote server directories (e.g. to + easily check on the contents of remote server directories (e.g. to verify that a mirror you're running is complete). Note that even though Wget writes to a known filename for this file, this is not a security hole in the scenario of a user making - `.listing' a symbolic link to `/etc/passwd' or something and - asking `root' to run Wget in his or her directory. Depending on - the options used, either Wget will refuse to write to `.listing', + '.listing' a symbolic link to '/etc/passwd' or something and asking + 'root' to run Wget in his or her directory. Depending on the + options used, either Wget will refuse to write to '.listing', making the globbing/recursion/time-stamping operation fail, or the symbolic link will be deleted and replaced with the actual - `.listing' file, or the listing will be written to a - `.listing.NUMBER' file. + '.listing' file, or the listing will be written to a + '.listing.NUMBER' file. - Even though this situation isn't a problem, though, `root' should + Even though this situation isn't a problem, though, 'root' should never run Wget in a non-trusted user's directory. A user could do - something as simple as linking `index.html' to `/etc/passwd' and - asking `root' to run Wget with `-N' or `-r' so the file will be + something as simple as linking 'index.html' to '/etc/passwd' and + asking 'root' to run Wget with '-N' or '-r' so the file will be overwritten. -`--no-glob' +'--no-glob' Turn off FTP globbing. Globbing refers to the use of shell-like - special characters ("wildcards"), like `*', `?', `[' and `]' to + special characters ("wildcards"), like '*', '?', '[' and ']' to retrieve more than one file from the same directory at once, like: wget ftp://gnjilux.srk.fer.hr/*.msg By default, globbing will be turned on if the URL contains a - globbing character. This option may be used to turn globbing on - or off permanently. + globbing character. This option may be used to turn globbing on or + off permanently. You may have to quote the URL to protect it from being expanded by your shell. Globbing makes Wget look for a directory listing, - which is system-specific. This is why it currently works only - with Unix FTP servers (and the ones emulating Unix `ls' output). + which is system-specific. This is why it currently works only with + Unix FTP servers (and the ones emulating Unix 'ls' output). -`--no-passive-ftp' +'--no-passive-ftp' Disable the use of the "passive" FTP transfer mode. Passive FTP mandates that the client connect to the server to establish the data connection rather than the other way around. @@ -1531,26 +1582,30 @@ File: wget.info, Node: FTP Options, Next: Recursive Retrieval Options, Prev: NAT configurations passive FTP has a better chance of working. However, in some rare firewall configurations, active FTP actually works when passive FTP doesn't. If you suspect this to be the - case, use this option, or set `passive_ftp=off' in your init file. + case, use this option, or set 'passive_ftp=off' in your init file. + +'--preserve-permissions' + Preserve remote file permissions instead of permissions set by + umask. -`--retr-symlinks' +'--retr-symlinks' Usually, when retrieving FTP directories recursively and a symbolic link is encountered, the linked-to file is not downloaded. Instead, a matching symbolic link is created on the local - filesystem. The pointed-to file will not be downloaded unless - this recursive retrieval would have encountered it separately and + filesystem. The pointed-to file will not be downloaded unless this + recursive retrieval would have encountered it separately and downloaded it anyway. - When `--retr-symlinks' is specified, however, symbolic links are + When '--retr-symlinks' is specified, however, symbolic links are traversed and the pointed-to files are retrieved. At this time, - this option does not cause Wget to traverse symlinks to - directories and recurse through them, but in the future it should - be enhanced to do this. + this option does not cause Wget to traverse symlinks to directories + and recurse through them, but in the future it should be enhanced + to do this. Note that when retrieving a file (not a directory) because it was specified on the command-line, rather than because it was recursed - to, this option has no effect. Symbolic links are always - traversed in this case. + to, this option has no effect. Symbolic links are always traversed + in this case. File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Retrieval Options, Next: Recursive Accept/Reject Options, Prev: FTP Options, Up: Invoking @@ -1558,37 +1613,37 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Retrieval Options, Next: Recursive Accept/Rej 2.10 Recursive Retrieval Options ================================ -`-r' -`--recursive' +'-r' +'--recursive' Turn on recursive retrieving. *Note Recursive Download::, for more details. The default maximum depth is 5. -`-l DEPTH' -`--level=DEPTH' +'-l DEPTH' +'--level=DEPTH' Specify recursion maximum depth level DEPTH (*note Recursive Download::). -`--delete-after' +'--delete-after' This option tells Wget to delete every single file it downloads, _after_ having done so. It is useful for pre-fetching popular pages through a proxy, e.g.: wget -r -nd --delete-after http://whatever.com/~popular/page/ - The `-r' option is to retrieve recursively, and `-nd' to not - create directories. + The '-r' option is to retrieve recursively, and '-nd' to not create + directories. - Note that `--delete-after' deletes files on the local machine. It - does not issue the `DELE' command to remote FTP sites, for - instance. Also note that when `--delete-after' is specified, - `--convert-links' is ignored, so `.orig' files are simply not + Note that '--delete-after' deletes files on the local machine. It + does not issue the 'DELE' command to remote FTP sites, for + instance. Also note that when '--delete-after' is specified, + '--convert-links' is ignored, so '.orig' files are simply not created in the first place. -`-k' -`--convert-links' +'-k' +'--convert-links' After the download is complete, convert the links in the document - to make them suitable for local viewing. This affects not only - the visible hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links to + to make them suitable for local viewing. This affects not only the + visible hyperlinks, but any part of the document that links to external content, such as embedded images, links to style sheets, hyperlinks to non-HTML content, etc. @@ -1597,9 +1652,9 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Retrieval Options, Next: Recursive Accept/Rej * The links to files that have been downloaded by Wget will be changed to refer to the file they point to as a relative link. - Example: if the downloaded file `/foo/doc.html' links to - `/bar/img.gif', also downloaded, then the link in `doc.html' - will be modified to point to `../bar/img.gif'. This kind of + Example: if the downloaded file '/foo/doc.html' links to + '/bar/img.gif', also downloaded, then the link in 'doc.html' + will be modified to point to '../bar/img.gif'. This kind of transformation works reliably for arbitrary combinations of directories. @@ -1607,128 +1662,128 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Retrieval Options, Next: Recursive Accept/Rej be changed to include host name and absolute path of the location they point to. - Example: if the downloaded file `/foo/doc.html' links to - `/bar/img.gif' (or to `../bar/img.gif'), then the link in - `doc.html' will be modified to point to - `http://HOSTNAME/bar/img.gif'. + Example: if the downloaded file '/foo/doc.html' links to + '/bar/img.gif' (or to '../bar/img.gif'), then the link in + 'doc.html' will be modified to point to + 'http://HOSTNAME/bar/img.gif'. Because of this, local browsing works reliably: if a linked file was downloaded, the link will refer to its local name; if it was not downloaded, the link will refer to its full Internet address rather than presenting a broken link. The fact that the former - links are converted to relative links ensures that you can move - the downloaded hierarchy to another directory. + links are converted to relative links ensures that you can move the + downloaded hierarchy to another directory. - Note that only at the end of the download can Wget know which - links have been downloaded. Because of that, the work done by - `-k' will be performed at the end of all the downloads. + Note that only at the end of the download can Wget know which links + have been downloaded. Because of that, the work done by '-k' will + be performed at the end of all the downloads. -`-K' -`--backup-converted' - When converting a file, back up the original version with a `.orig' - suffix. Affects the behavior of `-N' (*note HTTP Time-Stamping +'-K' +'--backup-converted' + When converting a file, back up the original version with a '.orig' + suffix. Affects the behavior of '-N' (*note HTTP Time-Stamping Internals::). -`-m' -`--mirror' +'-m' +'--mirror' Turn on options suitable for mirroring. This option turns on recursion and time-stamping, sets infinite recursion depth and - keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to `-r - -N -l inf --no-remove-listing'. + keeps FTP directory listings. It is currently equivalent to '-r -N + -l inf --no-remove-listing'. -`-p' -`--page-requisites' +'-p' +'--page-requisites' This option causes Wget to download all the files that are necessary to properly display a given HTML page. This includes such things as inlined images, sounds, and referenced stylesheets. Ordinarily, when downloading a single HTML page, any requisite documents that may be needed to display it properly are not - downloaded. Using `-r' together with `-l' can help, but since - Wget does not ordinarily distinguish between external and inlined + downloaded. Using '-r' together with '-l' can help, but since Wget + does not ordinarily distinguish between external and inlined documents, one is generally left with "leaf documents" that are missing their requisites. - For instance, say document `1.html' contains an `<IMG>' tag - referencing `1.gif' and an `<A>' tag pointing to external document - `2.html'. Say that `2.html' is similar but that its image is - `2.gif' and it links to `3.html'. Say this continues up to some + For instance, say document '1.html' contains an '<IMG>' tag + referencing '1.gif' and an '<A>' tag pointing to external document + '2.html'. Say that '2.html' is similar but that its image is + '2.gif' and it links to '3.html'. Say this continues up to some arbitrarily high number. If one executes the command: wget -r -l 2 http://SITE/1.html - then `1.html', `1.gif', `2.html', `2.gif', and `3.html' will be - downloaded. As you can see, `3.html' is without its requisite - `3.gif' because Wget is simply counting the number of hops (up to - 2) away from `1.html' in order to determine where to stop the + then '1.html', '1.gif', '2.html', '2.gif', and '3.html' will be + downloaded. As you can see, '3.html' is without its requisite + '3.gif' because Wget is simply counting the number of hops (up to + 2) away from '1.html' in order to determine where to stop the recursion. However, with this command: wget -r -l 2 -p http://SITE/1.html - all the above files _and_ `3.html''s requisite `3.gif' will be + all the above files _and_ '3.html''s requisite '3.gif' will be downloaded. Similarly, wget -r -l 1 -p http://SITE/1.html - will cause `1.html', `1.gif', `2.html', and `2.gif' to be + will cause '1.html', '1.gif', '2.html', and '2.gif' to be downloaded. One might think that: wget -r -l 0 -p http://SITE/1.html - would download just `1.html' and `1.gif', but unfortunately this - is not the case, because `-l 0' is equivalent to `-l inf'--that - is, infinite recursion. To download a single HTML page (or a - handful of them, all specified on the command-line or in a `-i' - URL input file) and its (or their) requisites, simply leave off - `-r' and `-l': + would download just '1.html' and '1.gif', but unfortunately this is + not the case, because '-l 0' is equivalent to '-l inf'--that is, + infinite recursion. To download a single HTML page (or a handful + of them, all specified on the command-line or in a '-i' URL input + file) and its (or their) requisites, simply leave off '-r' and + '-l': wget -p http://SITE/1.html - Note that Wget will behave as if `-r' had been specified, but only - that single page and its requisites will be downloaded. Links - from that page to external documents will not be followed. - Actually, to download a single page and all its requisites (even - if they exist on separate websites), and make sure the lot - displays properly locally, this author likes to use a few options - in addition to `-p': + Note that Wget will behave as if '-r' had been specified, but only + that single page and its requisites will be downloaded. Links from + that page to external documents will not be followed. Actually, to + download a single page and all its requisites (even if they exist + on separate websites), and make sure the lot displays properly + locally, this author likes to use a few options in addition to + '-p': wget -E -H -k -K -p http://SITE/DOCUMENT To finish off this topic, it's worth knowing that Wget's idea of an - external document link is any URL specified in an `<A>' tag, an - `<AREA>' tag, or a `<LINK>' tag other than `<LINK + external document link is any URL specified in an '<A>' tag, an + '<AREA>' tag, or a '<LINK>' tag other than '<LINK REL="stylesheet">'. -`--strict-comments' +'--strict-comments' Turn on strict parsing of HTML comments. The default is to - terminate comments at the first occurrence of `-->'. + terminate comments at the first occurrence of '-->'. According to specifications, HTML comments are expressed as SGML "declarations". Declaration is special markup that begins with - `<!' and ends with `>', such as `<!DOCTYPE ...>', that may contain - comments between a pair of `--' delimiters. HTML comments are + '<!' and ends with '>', such as '<!DOCTYPE ...>', that may contain + comments between a pair of '--' delimiters. HTML comments are "empty declarations", SGML declarations without any non-comment - text. Therefore, `<!--foo-->' is a valid comment, and so is - `<!--one-- --two-->', but `<!--1--2-->' is not. + text. Therefore, '<!--foo-->' is a valid comment, and so is + '<!--one-- --two-->', but '<!--1--2-->' is not. On the other hand, most HTML writers don't perceive comments as - anything other than text delimited with `<!--' and `-->', which is - not quite the same. For example, something like `<!------------>' + anything other than text delimited with '<!--' and '-->', which is + not quite the same. For example, something like '<!------------>' works as a valid comment as long as the number of dashes is a multiple of four (!). If not, the comment technically lasts until - the next `--', which may be at the other end of the document. + the next '--', which may be at the other end of the document. Because of this, many popular browsers completely ignore the specification and implement what users have come to expect: - comments delimited with `<!--' and `-->'. + comments delimited with '<!--' and '-->'. Until version 1.9, Wget interpreted comments strictly, which resulted in missing links in many web pages that displayed fine in browsers, but had the misfortune of containing non-compliant - comments. Beginning with version 1.9, Wget has joined the ranks - of clients that implements "naive" comments, terminating each - comment at the first occurrence of `-->'. + comments. Beginning with version 1.9, Wget has joined the ranks of + clients that implements "naive" comments, terminating each comment + at the first occurrence of '-->'. If, for whatever reason, you want strict comment parsing, use this option to turn it on. @@ -1739,36 +1794,47 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Accept/Reject Options, Next: Exit Status, Pr 2.11 Recursive Accept/Reject Options ==================================== -`-A ACCLIST --accept ACCLIST' -`-R REJLIST --reject REJLIST' +'-A ACCLIST --accept ACCLIST' +'-R REJLIST --reject REJLIST' Specify comma-separated lists of file name suffixes or patterns to - accept or reject (*note Types of Files::). Note that if any of the - wildcard characters, `*', `?', `[' or `]', appear in an element of + accept or reject (*note Types of Files::). Note that if any of the + wildcard characters, '*', '?', '[' or ']', appear in an element of ACCLIST or REJLIST, it will be treated as a pattern, rather than a - suffix. + suffix. In this case, you have to enclose the pattern into quotes + to prevent your shell from expanding it, like in '-A "*.mp3"' or + '-A '*.mp3''. -`-D DOMAIN-LIST' -`--domains=DOMAIN-LIST' +'--accept-regex URLREGEX' +'--reject-regex URLREGEX' + Specify a regular expression to accept or reject the complete URL. + +'--regex-type REGEXTYPE' + Specify the regular expression type. Possible types are 'posix' or + 'pcre'. Note that to be able to use 'pcre' type, wget has to be + compiled with libpcre support. + +'-D DOMAIN-LIST' +'--domains=DOMAIN-LIST' Set domains to be followed. DOMAIN-LIST is a comma-separated list - of domains. Note that it does _not_ turn on `-H'. + of domains. Note that it does _not_ turn on '-H'. -`--exclude-domains DOMAIN-LIST' +'--exclude-domains DOMAIN-LIST' Specify the domains that are _not_ to be followed (*note Spanning Hosts::). -`--follow-ftp' +'--follow-ftp' Follow FTP links from HTML documents. Without this option, Wget will ignore all the FTP links. -`--follow-tags=LIST' +'--follow-tags=LIST' Wget has an internal table of HTML tag / attribute pairs that it considers when looking for linked documents during a recursive retrieval. If a user wants only a subset of those tags to be considered, however, he or she should be specify such tags in a comma-separated LIST with this option. -`--ignore-tags=LIST' - This is the opposite of the `--follow-tags' option. To skip +'--ignore-tags=LIST' + This is the opposite of the '--follow-tags' option. To skip certain HTML tags when recursively looking for documents to download, specify them in a comma-separated LIST. @@ -1778,45 +1844,45 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Accept/Reject Options, Next: Exit Status, Pr wget --ignore-tags=a,area -H -k -K -r http://SITE/DOCUMENT However, the author of this option came across a page with tags - like `<LINK REL="home" HREF="/">' and came to the realization that - specifying tags to ignore was not enough. One can't just tell - Wget to ignore `<LINK>', because then stylesheets will not be - downloaded. Now the best bet for downloading a single page and - its requisites is the dedicated `--page-requisites' option. + like '<LINK REL="home" HREF="/">' and came to the realization that + specifying tags to ignore was not enough. One can't just tell Wget + to ignore '<LINK>', because then stylesheets will not be + downloaded. Now the best bet for downloading a single page and its + requisites is the dedicated '--page-requisites' option. -`--ignore-case' +'--ignore-case' Ignore case when matching files and directories. This influences the behavior of -R, -A, -I, and -X options, as well as globbing implemented when downloading from FTP sites. For example, with - this option, `-A *.txt' will match `file1.txt', but also - `file2.TXT', `file3.TxT', and so on. + this option, '-A "*.txt"' will match 'file1.txt', but also + 'file2.TXT', 'file3.TxT', and so on. The quotes in the example are + to prevent the shell from expanding the pattern. -`-H' -`--span-hosts' - Enable spanning across hosts when doing recursive retrieving - (*note Spanning Hosts::). +'-H' +'--span-hosts' + Enable spanning across hosts when doing recursive retrieving (*note + Spanning Hosts::). -`-L' -`--relative' +'-L' +'--relative' Follow relative links only. Useful for retrieving a specific home page without any distractions, not even those from the same hosts (*note Relative Links::). -`-I LIST' -`--include-directories=LIST' +'-I LIST' +'--include-directories=LIST' Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to follow when downloading (*note Directory-Based Limits::). Elements of LIST may contain wildcards. -`-X LIST' -`--exclude-directories=LIST' +'-X LIST' +'--exclude-directories=LIST' Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to exclude from download (*note Directory-Based Limits::). Elements of LIST may contain wildcards. -`-np' - -`--no-parent' +'-np' +'--no-parent' Do not ever ascend to the parent directory when retrieving recursively. This is a useful option, since it guarantees that only the files _below_ a certain hierarchy will be downloaded. @@ -1838,7 +1904,7 @@ Wget may return one of several error codes if it encounters problems. 2 Parse error--for instance, when parsing command-line options, the - `.wgetrc' or `.netrc'... + '.wgetrc' or '.netrc'... 3 File I/O error. @@ -1863,10 +1929,10 @@ precedence over higher-numbered ones, when multiple types of errors are encountered. In versions of Wget prior to 1.12, Wget's exit status tended to be -unhelpful and inconsistent. Recursive downloads would virtually always +unhelpful and inconsistent. Recursive downloads would virtually always return 0 (success), regardless of any issues encountered, and -non-recursive fetches only returned the status corresponding to the -most recently-attempted download. +non-recursive fetches only returned the status corresponding to the most +recently-attempted download. File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Download, Next: Following Links, Prev: Invoking, Up: Top @@ -1880,9 +1946,9 @@ as to "recursive retrieval", or "recursion". With HTTP URLs, Wget retrieves and parses the HTML or CSS from the given URL, retrieving the files the document refers to, through markup -like `href' or `src', or CSS URI values specified using the `url()' +like 'href' or 'src', or CSS URI values specified using the 'url()' functional notation. If the freshly downloaded file is also of type -`text/html', `application/xhtml+xml', or `text/css', it will be parsed +'text/html', 'application/xhtml+xml', or 'text/css', it will be parsed and followed further. Recursive retrieval of HTTP and HTML/CSS content is "breadth-first". @@ -1892,12 +1958,12 @@ and so on. In other words, Wget first downloads the documents at depth 1, then those at depth 2, and so on until the specified maximum depth. The maximum "depth" to which the retrieval may descend is specified -with the `-l' option. The default maximum depth is five layers. +with the '-l' option. The default maximum depth is five layers. When retrieving an FTP URL recursively, Wget will retrieve all the data from the given directory tree (including the subdirectories up to the specified depth) on the remote server, creating its mirror image -locally. FTP retrieval is also limited by the `depth' parameter. +locally. FTP retrieval is also limited by the 'depth' parameter. Unlike HTTP recursion, FTP recursion is performed depth-first. By default, Wget will create a local directory tree, corresponding to @@ -1912,7 +1978,7 @@ connections should be bypassed by storing the files locally. servers. Because of that, many administrators frown upon them and may ban access from your site if they detect very fast downloads of big amounts of content. When downloading from Internet servers, consider -using the `-w' option to introduce a delay between accesses to the +using the '-w' option to introduce a delay between accesses to the server. The download will take a while longer, but the server administrator will not be alarmed by your rudeness. @@ -1923,10 +1989,10 @@ consume memory and CPU. Try to specify the criteria that match the kind of download you are trying to achieve. If you want to download only one page, use -`--page-requisites' without any additional recursion. If you want to -download things under one directory, use `-np' to avoid downloading +'--page-requisites' without any additional recursion. If you want to +download things under one directory, use '-np' to avoid downloading things from other directories. If you want to download all the files -from one directory, use `-l 1' to make sure the recursion depth never +from one directory, use '-l 1' to make sure the recursion depth never exceeds one. *Note Following Links::, for more information about this. Recursive retrieval should be used with care. Don't say you were not @@ -1943,7 +2009,7 @@ unnecessary data. Most of the time the users bear in mind exactly what they want to download, and want Wget to follow only specific links. For example, if you wish to download the music archive from -`fly.srk.fer.hr', you will not want to download all the home pages that +'fly.srk.fer.hr', you will not want to download all the home pages that happen to be referenced by an obscure part of the archive. Wget possesses several mechanisms that allows you to fine-tune which @@ -1968,45 +2034,47 @@ than the one you specified on the command line. This is a reasonable default; without it, every retrieval would have the potential to turn your Wget into a small version of google. - However, visiting different hosts, or "host spanning," is sometimes -a useful option. Maybe the images are served from a different server. + However, visiting different hosts, or "host spanning," is sometimes a +useful option. Maybe the images are served from a different server. Maybe you're mirroring a site that consists of pages interlinked between three servers. Maybe the server has two equivalent names, and the HTML pages refer to both interchangeably. -Span to any host--`-H' - The `-H' option turns on host spanning, thus allowing Wget's +Span to any host--'-H' + + The '-H' option turns on host spanning, thus allowing Wget's recursive run to visit any host referenced by a link. Unless sufficient recursion-limiting criteria are applied depth, these foreign hosts will typically link to yet more hosts, and so on until Wget ends up sucking up much more data than you have intended. -Limit spanning to certain domains--`-D' - The `-D' option allows you to specify the domains that will be - followed, thus limiting the recursion only to the hosts that - belong to these domains. Obviously, this makes sense only in - conjunction with `-H'. A typical example would be downloading the - contents of `www.server.com', but allowing downloads from - `images.server.com', etc.: +Limit spanning to certain domains--'-D' + + The '-D' option allows you to specify the domains that will be + followed, thus limiting the recursion only to the hosts that belong + to these domains. Obviously, this makes sense only in conjunction + with '-H'. A typical example would be downloading the contents of + 'www.server.com', but allowing downloads from 'images.server.com', + etc.: wget -rH -Dserver.com http://www.server.com/ You can specify more than one address by separating them with a - comma, e.g. `-Ddomain1.com,domain2.com'. + comma, e.g. '-Ddomain1.com,domain2.com'. + +Keep download off certain domains--'--exclude-domains' -Keep download off certain domains--`--exclude-domains' If there are domains you want to exclude specifically, you can do - it with `--exclude-domains', which accepts the same type of - arguments of `-D', but will _exclude_ all the listed domains. For - example, if you want to download all the hosts from `foo.edu' - domain, with the exception of `sunsite.foo.edu', you can do it like + it with '--exclude-domains', which accepts the same type of + arguments of '-D', but will _exclude_ all the listed domains. For + example, if you want to download all the hosts from 'foo.edu' + domain, with the exception of 'sunsite.foo.edu', you can do it like this: wget -rH -Dfoo.edu --exclude-domains sunsite.foo.edu \ http://www.foo.edu/ - File: wget.info, Node: Types of Files, Next: Directory-Based Limits, Prev: Spanning Hosts, Up: Following Links @@ -2020,93 +2088,91 @@ of PostScript documents, and vice versa. Wget offers two options to deal with this problem. Each option description lists a short name, a long name, and the equivalent command -in `.wgetrc'. - -`-A ACCLIST' -`--accept ACCLIST' -`accept = ACCLIST' -`--accept-regex URLREGEX' -`accept-regex = URLREGEX' - The argument to `--accept' option is a list of file suffixes or +in '.wgetrc'. + +'-A ACCLIST' +'--accept ACCLIST' +'accept = ACCLIST' +'--accept-regex URLREGEX' +'accept-regex = URLREGEX' + The argument to '--accept' option is a list of file suffixes or patterns that Wget will download during recursive retrieval. A suffix is the ending part of a file, and consists of "normal" - letters, e.g. `gif' or `.jpg'. A matching pattern contains - shell-like wildcards, e.g. `books*' or `zelazny*196[0-9]*'. + letters, e.g. 'gif' or '.jpg'. A matching pattern contains + shell-like wildcards, e.g. 'books*' or 'zelazny*196[0-9]*'. - So, specifying `wget -A gif,jpg' will make Wget download only the - files ending with `gif' or `jpg', i.e. GIFs and JPEGs. On the - other hand, `wget -A "zelazny*196[0-9]*"' will download only files - beginning with `zelazny' and containing numbers from 1960 to 1969 + So, specifying 'wget -A gif,jpg' will make Wget download only the + files ending with 'gif' or 'jpg', i.e. GIFs and JPEGs. On the + other hand, 'wget -A "zelazny*196[0-9]*"' will download only files + beginning with 'zelazny' and containing numbers from 1960 to 1969 anywhere within. Look up the manual of your shell for a description of how pattern matching works. - Of course, any number of suffixes and patterns can be combined - into a comma-separated list, and given as an argument to `-A'. + Of course, any number of suffixes and patterns can be combined into + a comma-separated list, and given as an argument to '-A'. - The argument to `--accept-regex' option is a regular expression + The argument to '--accept-regex' option is a regular expression which is matched against the complete URL. -`-R REJLIST' -`--reject REJLIST' -`reject = REJLIST' -`--reject-regex URLREGEX' -`reject-regex = URLREGEX' - The `--reject' option works the same way as `--accept', only its +'-R REJLIST' +'--reject REJLIST' +'reject = REJLIST' +'--reject-regex URLREGEX' +'reject-regex = URLREGEX' + The '--reject' option works the same way as '--accept', only its logic is the reverse; Wget will download all files _except_ the ones matching the suffixes (or patterns) in the list. So, if you want to download a whole page except for the cumbersome - MPEGs and .AU files, you can use `wget -R mpg,mpeg,au'. + MPEGs and .AU files, you can use 'wget -R mpg,mpeg,au'. Analogously, to download all files except the ones beginning with - `bjork', use `wget -R "bjork*"'. The quotes are to prevent + 'bjork', use 'wget -R "bjork*"'. The quotes are to prevent expansion by the shell. - The argument to `--accept-regex' option is a regular expression which + The argument to '--accept-regex' option is a regular expression which is matched against the complete URL. -The `-A' and `-R' options may be combined to achieve even better -fine-tuning of which files to retrieve. E.g. `wget -A "*zelazny*" -R -.ps' will download all the files having `zelazny' as a part of their +The '-A' and '-R' options may be combined to achieve even better +fine-tuning of which files to retrieve. E.g. 'wget -A "*zelazny*" -R +.ps' will download all the files having 'zelazny' as a part of their name, but _not_ the PostScript files. Note that these two options do not affect the downloading of HTML -files (as determined by a `.htm' or `.html' filename prefix). This +files (as determined by a '.htm' or '.html' filename prefix). This behavior may not be desirable for all users, and may be changed for future versions of Wget. Note, too, that query strings (strings at the end of a URL beginning -with a question mark (`?') are not included as part of the filename for +with a question mark ('?') are not included as part of the filename for accept/reject rules, even though these will actually contribute to the -name chosen for the local file. It is expected that a future version of +name chosen for the local file. It is expected that a future version of Wget will provide an option to allow matching against query strings. Finally, it's worth noting that the accept/reject lists are matched _twice_ against downloaded files: once against the URL's filename portion, to determine if the file should be downloaded in the first -place; then, after it has been accepted and successfully downloaded, -the local file's name is also checked against the accept/reject lists -to see if it should be removed. The rationale was that, since `.htm' -and `.html' files are always downloaded regardless of accept/reject -rules, they should be removed _after_ being downloaded and scanned for -links, if they did match the accept/reject lists. However, this can -lead to unexpected results, since the local filenames can differ from -the original URL filenames in the following ways, all of which can -change whether an accept/reject rule matches: - - * If the local file already exists and `--no-directories' was +place; then, after it has been accepted and successfully downloaded, the +local file's name is also checked against the accept/reject lists to see +if it should be removed. The rationale was that, since '.htm' and +'.html' files are always downloaded regardless of accept/reject rules, +they should be removed _after_ being downloaded and scanned for links, +if they did match the accept/reject lists. However, this can lead to +unexpected results, since the local filenames can differ from the +original URL filenames in the following ways, all of which can change +whether an accept/reject rule matches: + + * If the local file already exists and '--no-directories' was specified, a numeric suffix will be appended to the original name. - - * If `--adjust-extension' was specified, the local filename might - have `.html' appended to it. If Wget is invoked with `-E -A.php', - a filename such as `index.php' will match be accepted, but upon - download will be named `index.php.html', which no longer matches, + * If '--adjust-extension' was specified, the local filename might + have '.html' appended to it. If Wget is invoked with '-E -A.php', + a filename such as 'index.php' will match be accepted, but upon + download will be named 'index.php.html', which no longer matches, and so the file will be deleted. - * Query strings do not contribute to URL matching, but are included in local filenames, and so _do_ contribute to filename matching. -This behavior, too, is considered less-than-desirable, and may change -in a future version of Wget. +This behavior, too, is considered less-than-desirable, and may change in +a future version of Wget. File: wget.info, Node: Directory-Based Limits, Next: Relative Links, Prev: Types of Files, Up: Following Links @@ -2116,69 +2182,69 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Directory-Based Limits, Next: Relative Links, Prev: Ty Regardless of other link-following facilities, it is often useful to place the restriction of what files to retrieve based on the directories -those files are placed in. There can be many reasons for this--the -home pages may be organized in a reasonable directory structure; or some -directories may contain useless information, e.g. `/cgi-bin' or `/dev' +those files are placed in. There can be many reasons for this--the home +pages may be organized in a reasonable directory structure; or some +directories may contain useless information, e.g. '/cgi-bin' or '/dev' directories. Wget offers three different options to deal with this requirement. Each option description lists a short name, a long name, and the -equivalent command in `.wgetrc'. +equivalent command in '.wgetrc'. -`-I LIST' -`--include LIST' -`include_directories = LIST' - `-I' option accepts a comma-separated list of directories included +'-I LIST' +'--include LIST' +'include_directories = LIST' + '-I' option accepts a comma-separated list of directories included in the retrieval. Any other directories will simply be ignored. The directories are absolute paths. - So, if you wish to download from `http://host/people/bozo/' - following only links to bozo's colleagues in the `/people' - directory and the bogus scripts in `/cgi-bin', you can specify: + So, if you wish to download from 'http://host/people/bozo/' + following only links to bozo's colleagues in the '/people' + directory and the bogus scripts in '/cgi-bin', you can specify: wget -I /people,/cgi-bin http://host/people/bozo/ -`-X LIST' -`--exclude LIST' -`exclude_directories = LIST' - `-X' option is exactly the reverse of `-I'--this is a list of - directories _excluded_ from the download. E.g. if you do not want - Wget to download things from `/cgi-bin' directory, specify `-X +'-X LIST' +'--exclude LIST' +'exclude_directories = LIST' + '-X' option is exactly the reverse of '-I'--this is a list of + directories _excluded_ from the download. E.g. if you do not want + Wget to download things from '/cgi-bin' directory, specify '-X /cgi-bin' on the command line. - The same as with `-A'/`-R', these two options can be combined to - get a better fine-tuning of downloading subdirectories. E.g. if - you want to load all the files from `/pub' hierarchy except for - `/pub/worthless', specify `-I/pub -X/pub/worthless'. + The same as with '-A'/'-R', these two options can be combined to + get a better fine-tuning of downloading subdirectories. E.g. if + you want to load all the files from '/pub' hierarchy except for + '/pub/worthless', specify '-I/pub -X/pub/worthless'. -`-np' -`--no-parent' -`no_parent = on' +'-np' +'--no-parent' +'no_parent = on' The simplest, and often very useful way of limiting directories is disallowing retrieval of the links that refer to the hierarchy - "above" than the beginning directory, i.e. disallowing ascent to + "above" than the beginning directory, i.e. disallowing ascent to the parent directory/directories. - The `--no-parent' option (short `-np') is useful in this case. + The '--no-parent' option (short '-np') is useful in this case. Using it guarantees that you will never leave the existing hierarchy. Supposing you issue Wget with: wget -r --no-parent http://somehost/~luzer/my-archive/ You may rest assured that none of the references to - `/~his-girls-homepage/' or `/~luzer/all-my-mpegs/' will be + '/~his-girls-homepage/' or '/~luzer/all-my-mpegs/' will be followed. Only the archive you are interested in will be - downloaded. Essentially, `--no-parent' is similar to - `-I/~luzer/my-archive', only it handles redirections in a more + downloaded. Essentially, '--no-parent' is similar to + '-I/~luzer/my-archive', only it handles redirections in a more intelligent fashion. *Note* that, for HTTP (and HTTPS), the trailing slash is very - important to `--no-parent'. HTTP has no concept of a + important to '--no-parent'. HTTP has no concept of a "directory"--Wget relies on you to indicate what's a directory and - what isn't. In `http://foo/bar/', Wget will consider `bar' to be a - directory, while in `http://foo/bar' (no trailing slash), `bar' - will be considered a filename (so `--no-parent' would be - meaningless, as its parent is `/'). + what isn't. In 'http://foo/bar/', Wget will consider 'bar' to be a + directory, while in 'http://foo/bar' (no trailing slash), 'bar' + will be considered a filename (so '--no-parent' would be + meaningless, as its parent is '/'). File: wget.info, Node: Relative Links, Next: FTP Links, Prev: Directory-Based Limits, Up: Following Links @@ -2186,7 +2252,7 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Relative Links, Next: FTP Links, Prev: Directory-Based 4.4 Relative Links ================== -When `-L' is turned on, only the relative links are ever followed. +When '-L' is turned on, only the relative links are ever followed. Relative links are here defined those that do not refer to the web server root. For example, these links are relative: @@ -2201,7 +2267,7 @@ server root. For example, these links are relative: <a href="http://www.server.com/foo/bar.gif"> Using this option guarantees that recursive retrieval will not span -hosts, even without `-H'. In simple cases it also allows downloads to +hosts, even without '-H'. In simple cases it also allows downloads to "just work" without having to convert links. This option is probably not very useful and might be removed in a @@ -2218,11 +2284,11 @@ be. FTP links in HTML documents are often included for purposes of reference, and it is often inconvenient to download them by default. To have FTP links followed from HTML documents, you need to specify -the `--follow-ftp' option. Having done that, FTP links will span hosts -regardless of `-H' setting. This is logical, as FTP links rarely point +the '--follow-ftp' option. Having done that, FTP links will span hosts +regardless of '-H' setting. This is logical, as FTP links rarely point to the same host where the HTTP server resides. For similar reasons, -the `-L' options has no effect on such downloads. On the other hand, -domain acceptance (`-D') and suffix rules (`-A' and `-R') apply +the '-L' options has no effect on such downloads. On the other hand, +domain acceptance ('-D') and suffix rules ('-A' and '-R') apply normally. Also note that followed links to FTP directories will not be @@ -2257,8 +2323,8 @@ place of the old ones. modification of both local and remote files. We call this information the "time-stamp" of a file. - The time-stamping in GNU Wget is turned on using `--timestamping' -(`-N') option, or through `timestamping = on' directive in `.wgetrc'. + The time-stamping in GNU Wget is turned on using '--timestamping' +('-N') option, or through 'timestamping = on' directive in '.wgetrc'. With this option, for each file it intends to download, Wget will check whether a local file of the same name exists. If it does, and the remote file is not newer, Wget will not download it. @@ -2269,9 +2335,9 @@ say. * Menu: -* Time-Stamping Usage:: -* HTTP Time-Stamping Internals:: -* FTP Time-Stamping Internals:: +* Time-Stamping Usage:: +* HTTP Time-Stamping Internals:: +* FTP Time-Stamping Internals:: File: wget.info, Node: Time-Stamping Usage, Next: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals, Prev: Time-Stamping, Up: Time-Stamping @@ -2284,10 +2350,10 @@ file so that it keeps its date of modification. wget -S http://www.gnu.ai.mit.edu/ - A simple `ls -l' shows that the time stamp on the local file equals -the state of the `Last-Modified' header, as returned by the server. As + A simple 'ls -l' shows that the time stamp on the local file equals +the state of the 'Last-Modified' header, as returned by the server. As you can see, the time-stamping info is preserved locally, even without -`-N' (at least for HTTP). +'-N' (at least for HTTP). Several days later, you would like Wget to check if the remote file has changed, and download it if it has. @@ -2304,12 +2370,12 @@ recent, Wget will proceed to fetch it. wget "ftp://ftp.ifi.uio.no/pub/emacs/gnus/*" (The quotes around that URL are to prevent the shell from trying to -interpret the `*'.) +interpret the '*'.) After download, a local directory listing will show that the -timestamps match those on the remote server. Reissuing the command -with `-N' will make Wget re-fetch _only_ the files that have been -modified since the last download. +timestamps match those on the remote server. Reissuing the command with +'-N' will make Wget re-fetch _only_ the files that have been modified +since the last download. If you wished to mirror the GNU archive every week, you would use a command like the following, weekly: @@ -2317,10 +2383,9 @@ command like the following, weekly: wget --timestamping -r ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ Note that time-stamping will only work for files for which the server -gives a timestamp. For HTTP, this depends on getting a `Last-Modified' -header. For FTP, this depends on getting a directory listing with -dates in a format that Wget can parse (*note FTP Time-Stamping -Internals::). +gives a timestamp. For HTTP, this depends on getting a 'Last-Modified' +header. For FTP, this depends on getting a directory listing with dates +in a format that Wget can parse (*note FTP Time-Stamping Internals::). File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals, Next: FTP Time-Stamping Internals, Prev: Time-Stamping Usage, Up: Time-Stamping @@ -2328,33 +2393,33 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals, Next: FTP Time-Stamping I 5.2 HTTP Time-Stamping Internals ================================ -Time-stamping in HTTP is implemented by checking of the `Last-Modified' -header. If you wish to retrieve the file `foo.html' through HTTP, Wget -will check whether `foo.html' exists locally. If it doesn't, -`foo.html' will be retrieved unconditionally. +Time-stamping in HTTP is implemented by checking of the 'Last-Modified' +header. If you wish to retrieve the file 'foo.html' through HTTP, Wget +will check whether 'foo.html' exists locally. If it doesn't, 'foo.html' +will be retrieved unconditionally. If the file does exist locally, Wget will first check its local -time-stamp (similar to the way `ls -l' checks it), and then send a -`HEAD' request to the remote server, demanding the information on the +time-stamp (similar to the way 'ls -l' checks it), and then send a +'HEAD' request to the remote server, demanding the information on the remote file. - The `Last-Modified' header is examined to find which file was + The 'Last-Modified' header is examined to find which file was modified more recently (which makes it "newer"). If the remote file is newer, it will be downloaded; if it is older, Wget will give up.(1) - When `--backup-converted' (`-K') is specified in conjunction with -`-N', server file `X' is compared to local file `X.orig', if extant, -rather than being compared to local file `X', which will always differ -if it's been converted by `--convert-links' (`-k'). + When '--backup-converted' ('-K') is specified in conjunction with +'-N', server file 'X' is compared to local file 'X.orig', if extant, +rather than being compared to local file 'X', which will always differ +if it's been converted by '--convert-links' ('-k'). Arguably, HTTP time-stamping should be implemented using the -`If-Modified-Since' request. +'If-Modified-Since' request. ---------- Footnotes ---------- - (1) As an additional check, Wget will look at the `Content-Length' -header, and compare the sizes; if they are not the same, the remote -file will be downloaded no matter what the time-stamp says. + (1) As an additional check, Wget will look at the 'Content-Length' +header, and compare the sizes; if they are not the same, the remote file +will be downloaded no matter what the time-stamp says. File: wget.info, Node: FTP Time-Stamping Internals, Prev: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals, Up: Time-Stamping @@ -2366,25 +2431,25 @@ In theory, FTP time-stamping works much the same as HTTP, only FTP has no headers--time-stamps must be ferreted out of directory listings. If an FTP download is recursive or uses globbing, Wget will use the -FTP `LIST' command to get a file listing for the directory containing +FTP 'LIST' command to get a file listing for the directory containing the desired file(s). It will try to analyze the listing, treating it -like Unix `ls -l' output, extracting the time-stamps. The rest is +like Unix 'ls -l' output, extracting the time-stamps. The rest is exactly the same as for HTTP. Note that when retrieving individual files from an FTP server without using globbing or recursion, listing files will not be downloaded (and thus files will not be time-stamped) -unless `-N' is specified. +unless '-N' is specified. Assumption that every directory listing is a Unix-style listing may sound extremely constraining, but in practice it is not, as many non-Unix FTP servers use the Unixoid listing format because most (all?) of the clients understand it. Bear in mind that RFC959 defines no -standard way to get a file list, let alone the time-stamps. We can -only hope that a future standard will define this. +standard way to get a file list, let alone the time-stamps. We can only +hope that a future standard will define this. - Another non-standard solution includes the use of `MDTM' command -that is supported by some FTP servers (including the popular -`wu-ftpd'), which returns the exact time of the specified file. Wget -may support this command in the future. + Another non-standard solution includes the use of 'MDTM' command that +is supported by some FTP servers (including the popular 'wu-ftpd'), +which returns the exact time of the specified file. Wget may support +this command in the future. File: wget.info, Node: Startup File, Next: Examples, Prev: Time-Stamping, Up: Top @@ -2395,14 +2460,14 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Startup File, Next: Examples, Prev: Time-Stamping, Up Once you know how to change default settings of Wget through command line arguments, you may wish to make some of those settings permanent. You can do that in a convenient way by creating the Wget startup -file--`.wgetrc'. +file--'.wgetrc'. - Besides `.wgetrc' is the "main" initialization file, it is -convenient to have a special facility for storing passwords. Thus Wget -reads and interprets the contents of `$HOME/.netrc', if it finds it. -You can find `.netrc' format in your system manuals. + Besides '.wgetrc' is the "main" initialization file, it is convenient +to have a special facility for storing passwords. Thus Wget reads and +interprets the contents of '$HOME/.netrc', if it finds it. You can find +'.netrc' format in your system manuals. - Wget reads `.wgetrc' upon startup, recognizing a limited set of + Wget reads '.wgetrc' upon startup, recognizing a limited set of commands. * Menu: @@ -2419,19 +2484,19 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Wgetrc Location, Next: Wgetrc Syntax, Prev: Startup Fi =================== When initializing, Wget will look for a "global" startup file, -`/usr/local/etc/wgetrc' by default (or some prefix other than -`/usr/local', if Wget was not installed there) and read commands from +'/usr/local/etc/wgetrc' by default (or some prefix other than +'/usr/local', if Wget was not installed there) and read commands from there, if it exists. Then it will look for the user's file. If the environmental variable -`WGETRC' is set, Wget will try to load that file. Failing that, no +'WGETRC' is set, Wget will try to load that file. Failing that, no further attempts will be made. - If `WGETRC' is not set, Wget will try to load `$HOME/.wgetrc'. + If 'WGETRC' is not set, Wget will try to load '$HOME/.wgetrc'. The fact that user's settings are loaded after the system-wide ones means that in case of collision user's wgetrc _overrides_ the -system-wide wgetrc (in `/usr/local/etc/wgetrc' by default). Fascist +system-wide wgetrc (in '/usr/local/etc/wgetrc' by default). Fascist admins, away! @@ -2448,12 +2513,12 @@ The syntax of a wgetrc command is simple: different for different commands. The commands are case-insensitive and underscore-insensitive. Thus -`DIr__PrefiX' is the same as `dirprefix'. Empty lines, lines beginning -with `#' and lines containing white-space only are discarded. +'DIr__PrefiX' is the same as 'dirprefix'. Empty lines, lines beginning +with '#' and lines containing white-space only are discarded. Commands that expect a comma-separated list will clear the list on an empty command. So, if you wish to reset the rejection list specified in -global `wgetrc', you can do it with: +global 'wgetrc', you can do it with: reject = @@ -2464,83 +2529,87 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Wgetrc Commands, Next: Sample Wgetrc, Prev: Wgetrc Syn =================== The complete set of commands is listed below. Legal values are listed -after the `='. Simple Boolean values can be set or unset using `on' -and `off' or `1' and `0'. +after the '='. Simple Boolean values can be set or unset using 'on' and +'off' or '1' and '0'. Some commands take pseudo-arbitrary values. ADDRESS values can be hostnames or dotted-quad IP addresses. N can be any positive integer, -or `inf' for infinity, where appropriate. STRING values can be any +or 'inf' for infinity, where appropriate. STRING values can be any non-empty string. Most of these commands have direct command-line equivalents. Also, any wgetrc command can be specified on the command line using the -`--execute' switch (*note Basic Startup Options::.) +'--execute' switch (*note Basic Startup Options::.) accept/reject = STRING - Same as `-A'/`-R' (*note Types of Files::). + Same as '-A'/'-R' (*note Types of Files::). add_hostdir = on/off - Enable/disable host-prefixed file names. `-nH' disables it. + Enable/disable host-prefixed file names. '-nH' disables it. ask_password = on/off - Prompt for a password for each connection established. Cannot be - specified when `--password' is being used, because they are - mutually exclusive. Equivalent to `--ask-password'. + Prompt for a password for each connection established. Cannot be + specified when '--password' is being used, because they are + mutually exclusive. Equivalent to '--ask-password'. auth_no_challenge = on/off If this option is given, Wget will send Basic HTTP authentication - information (plaintext username and password) for all requests. See - `--auth-no-challenge'. + information (plaintext username and password) for all requests. + See '--auth-no-challenge'. background = on/off - Enable/disable going to background--the same as `-b' (which - enables it). + Enable/disable going to background--the same as '-b' (which enables + it). backup_converted = on/off Enable/disable saving pre-converted files with the suffix - `.orig'--the same as `-K' (which enables it). + '.orig'--the same as '-K' (which enables it). + +backups = NUMBER + Use up to NUMBER backups for a file. Backups are rotated by adding + an incremental counter that starts at '1'. The default is '0'. base = STRING - Consider relative URLs in input files (specified via the `input' - command or the `--input-file'/`-i' option, together with - `force_html' or `--force-html') as being relative to STRING--the - same as `--base=STRING'. + Consider relative URLs in input files (specified via the 'input' + command or the '--input-file'/'-i' option, together with + 'force_html' or '--force-html') as being relative to STRING--the + same as '--base=STRING'. bind_address = ADDRESS - Bind to ADDRESS, like the `--bind-address=ADDRESS'. + Bind to ADDRESS, like the '--bind-address=ADDRESS'. ca_certificate = FILE Set the certificate authority bundle file to FILE. The same as - `--ca-certificate=FILE'. + '--ca-certificate=FILE'. ca_directory = DIRECTORY Set the directory used for certificate authorities. The same as - `--ca-directory=DIRECTORY'. + '--ca-directory=DIRECTORY'. cache = on/off - When set to off, disallow server-caching. See the `--no-cache' + When set to off, disallow server-caching. See the '--no-cache' option. certificate = FILE Set the client certificate file name to FILE. The same as - `--certificate=FILE'. + '--certificate=FILE'. certificate_type = STRING Specify the type of the client certificate, legal values being - `PEM' (the default) and `DER' (aka ASN1). The same as - `--certificate-type=STRING'. + 'PEM' (the default) and 'DER' (aka ASN1). The same as + '--certificate-type=STRING'. check_certificate = on/off If this is set to off, the server certificate is not checked against the specified client authorities. The default is "on". - The same as `--check-certificate'. + The same as '--check-certificate'. connect_timeout = N - Set the connect timeout--the same as `--connect-timeout'. + Set the connect timeout--the same as '--connect-timeout'. content_disposition = on/off - Turn on recognition of the (non-standard) `Content-Disposition' - HTTP header--if set to `on', the same as `--content-disposition'. + Turn on recognition of the (non-standard) 'Content-Disposition' + HTTP header--if set to 'on', the same as '--content-disposition'. trust_server_names = on/off If set to on, use the last component of a redirection URL for the @@ -2548,49 +2617,49 @@ trust_server_names = on/off continue = on/off If set to on, force continuation of preexistent partially retrieved - files. See `-c' before setting it. + files. See '-c' before setting it. convert_links = on/off - Convert non-relative links locally. The same as `-k'. + Convert non-relative links locally. The same as '-k'. cookies = on/off - When set to off, disallow cookies. See the `--cookies' option. + When set to off, disallow cookies. See the '--cookies' option. cut_dirs = N Ignore N remote directory components. Equivalent to - `--cut-dirs=N'. + '--cut-dirs=N'. debug = on/off - Debug mode, same as `-d'. + Debug mode, same as '-d'. default_page = STRING - Default page name--the same as `--default-page=STRING'. + Default page name--the same as '--default-page=STRING'. delete_after = on/off - Delete after download--the same as `--delete-after'. + Delete after download--the same as '--delete-after'. dir_prefix = STRING - Top of directory tree--the same as `-P STRING'. + Top of directory tree--the same as '-P STRING'. dirstruct = on/off - Turning dirstruct on or off--the same as `-x' or `-nd', + Turning dirstruct on or off--the same as '-x' or '-nd', respectively. dns_cache = on/off Turn DNS caching on/off. Since DNS caching is on by default, this option is normally used to turn it off and is equivalent to - `--no-dns-cache'. + '--no-dns-cache'. dns_timeout = N - Set the DNS timeout--the same as `--dns-timeout'. + Set the DNS timeout--the same as '--dns-timeout'. domains = STRING - Same as `-D' (*note Spanning Hosts::). + Same as '-D' (*note Spanning Hosts::). dot_bytes = N Specify the number of bytes "contained" in a dot, as seen throughout the retrieval (1024 by default). You can postfix the - value with `k' or `m', representing kilobytes and megabytes, + value with 'k' or 'm', representing kilobytes and megabytes, respectively. With dot settings you can tailor the dot retrieval to suit your needs, or you can use the predefined "styles" (*note Download Options::). @@ -2604,33 +2673,33 @@ dots_in_line = N egd_file = FILE Use STRING as the EGD socket file name. The same as - `--egd-file=FILE'. + '--egd-file=FILE'. exclude_directories = STRING Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to exclude - from download--the same as `-X STRING' (*note Directory-Based + from download--the same as '-X STRING' (*note Directory-Based Limits::). exclude_domains = STRING - Same as `--exclude-domains=STRING' (*note Spanning Hosts::). + Same as '--exclude-domains=STRING' (*note Spanning Hosts::). follow_ftp = on/off - Follow FTP links from HTML documents--the same as `--follow-ftp'. + Follow FTP links from HTML documents--the same as '--follow-ftp'. follow_tags = STRING Only follow certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval, - just like `--follow-tags=STRING'. + just like '--follow-tags=STRING'. force_html = on/off If set to on, force the input filename to be regarded as an HTML - document--the same as `-F'. + document--the same as '-F'. ftp_password = STRING Set your FTP password to STRING. Without this setting, the - password defaults to `-wget@', which is a useful default for + password defaults to '-wget@', which is a useful default for anonymous FTP access. - This command used to be named `passwd' prior to Wget 1.10. + This command used to be named 'passwd' prior to Wget 1.10. ftp_proxy = STRING Use STRING as FTP proxy, instead of the one specified in @@ -2639,33 +2708,33 @@ ftp_proxy = STRING ftp_user = STRING Set FTP user to STRING. - This command used to be named `login' prior to Wget 1.10. + This command used to be named 'login' prior to Wget 1.10. glob = on/off - Turn globbing on/off--the same as `--glob' and `--no-glob'. + Turn globbing on/off--the same as '--glob' and '--no-glob'. header = STRING - Define a header for HTTP downloads, like using `--header=STRING'. + Define a header for HTTP downloads, like using '--header=STRING'. adjust_extension = on/off - Add a `.html' extension to `text/html' or `application/xhtml+xml' - files that lack one, or a `.css' extension to `text/css' files - that lack one, like `-E'. Previously named `html_extension' (still + Add a '.html' extension to 'text/html' or 'application/xhtml+xml' + files that lack one, or a '.css' extension to 'text/css' files that + lack one, like '-E'. Previously named 'html_extension' (still acceptable, but deprecated). http_keep_alive = on/off Turn the keep-alive feature on or off (defaults to on). Turning it - off is equivalent to `--no-http-keep-alive'. + off is equivalent to '--no-http-keep-alive'. http_password = STRING - Set HTTP password, equivalent to `--http-password=STRING'. + Set HTTP password, equivalent to '--http-password=STRING'. http_proxy = STRING Use STRING as HTTP proxy, instead of the one specified in environment. http_user = STRING - Set HTTP user to STRING, equivalent to `--http-user=STRING'. + Set HTTP user to STRING, equivalent to '--http-user=STRING'. https_proxy = STRING Use STRING as HTTPS proxy, instead of the one specified in @@ -2673,264 +2742,264 @@ https_proxy = STRING ignore_case = on/off When set to on, match files and directories case insensitively; the - same as `--ignore-case'. + same as '--ignore-case'. ignore_length = on/off - When set to on, ignore `Content-Length' header; the same as - `--ignore-length'. + When set to on, ignore 'Content-Length' header; the same as + '--ignore-length'. ignore_tags = STRING Ignore certain HTML tags when doing a recursive retrieval, like - `--ignore-tags=STRING'. + '--ignore-tags=STRING'. include_directories = STRING Specify a comma-separated list of directories you wish to follow - when downloading--the same as `-I STRING'. + when downloading--the same as '-I STRING'. iri = on/off When set to on, enable internationalized URI (IRI) support; the - same as `--iri'. + same as '--iri'. inet4_only = on/off Force connecting to IPv4 addresses, off by default. You can put this in the global init file to disable Wget's attempts to resolve and connect to IPv6 hosts. Available only if Wget was compiled - with IPv6 support. The same as `--inet4-only' or `-4'. + with IPv6 support. The same as '--inet4-only' or '-4'. inet6_only = on/off - Force connecting to IPv6 addresses, off by default. Available - only if Wget was compiled with IPv6 support. The same as - `--inet6-only' or `-6'. + Force connecting to IPv6 addresses, off by default. Available only + if Wget was compiled with IPv6 support. The same as '--inet6-only' + or '-6'. input = FILE - Read the URLs from STRING, like `-i FILE'. + Read the URLs from STRING, like '-i FILE'. keep_session_cookies = on/off - When specified, causes `save_cookies = on' to also save session - cookies. See `--keep-session-cookies'. + When specified, causes 'save_cookies = on' to also save session + cookies. See '--keep-session-cookies'. limit_rate = RATE Limit the download speed to no more than RATE bytes per second. - The same as `--limit-rate=RATE'. + The same as '--limit-rate=RATE'. load_cookies = FILE - Load cookies from FILE. See `--load-cookies FILE'. + Load cookies from FILE. See '--load-cookies FILE'. local_encoding = ENCODING - Force Wget to use ENCODING as the default system encoding. See - `--local-encoding'. + Force Wget to use ENCODING as the default system encoding. See + '--local-encoding'. logfile = FILE - Set logfile to FILE, the same as `-o FILE'. + Set logfile to FILE, the same as '-o FILE'. max_redirect = NUMBER Specifies the maximum number of redirections to follow for a - resource. See `--max-redirect=NUMBER'. + resource. See '--max-redirect=NUMBER'. mirror = on/off - Turn mirroring on/off. The same as `-m'. + Turn mirroring on/off. The same as '-m'. netrc = on/off Turn reading netrc on or off. no_clobber = on/off - Same as `-nc'. + Same as '-nc'. no_parent = on/off Disallow retrieving outside the directory hierarchy, like - `--no-parent' (*note Directory-Based Limits::). + '--no-parent' (*note Directory-Based Limits::). no_proxy = STRING - Use STRING as the comma-separated list of domains to avoid in - proxy loading, instead of the one specified in environment. + Use STRING as the comma-separated list of domains to avoid in proxy + loading, instead of the one specified in environment. output_document = FILE - Set the output filename--the same as `-O FILE'. + Set the output filename--the same as '-O FILE'. page_requisites = on/off Download all ancillary documents necessary for a single HTML page - to display properly--the same as `-p'. + to display properly--the same as '-p'. passive_ftp = on/off - Change setting of passive FTP, equivalent to the `--passive-ftp' + Change setting of passive FTP, equivalent to the '--passive-ftp' option. password = STRING - Specify password STRING for both FTP and HTTP file retrieval. - This command can be overridden using the `ftp_password' and - `http_password' command for FTP and HTTP respectively. + Specify password STRING for both FTP and HTTP file retrieval. This + command can be overridden using the 'ftp_password' and + 'http_password' command for FTP and HTTP respectively. post_data = STRING - Use POST as the method for all HTTP requests and send STRING in - the request body. The same as `--post-data=STRING'. + Use POST as the method for all HTTP requests and send STRING in the + request body. The same as '--post-data=STRING'. post_file = FILE Use POST as the method for all HTTP requests and send the contents - of FILE in the request body. The same as `--post-file=FILE'. + of FILE in the request body. The same as '--post-file=FILE'. prefer_family = none/IPv4/IPv6 When given a choice of several addresses, connect to the addresses with specified address family first. The address order returned by DNS is used without change by default. The same as - `--prefer-family', which see for a detailed discussion of why this + '--prefer-family', which see for a detailed discussion of why this is useful. private_key = FILE Set the private key file to FILE. The same as - `--private-key=FILE'. + '--private-key=FILE'. private_key_type = STRING - Specify the type of the private key, legal values being `PEM' (the - default) and `DER' (aka ASN1). The same as - `--private-type=STRING'. + Specify the type of the private key, legal values being 'PEM' (the + default) and 'DER' (aka ASN1). The same as + '--private-type=STRING'. progress = STRING - Set the type of the progress indicator. Legal types are `dot' and - `bar'. Equivalent to `--progress=STRING'. + Set the type of the progress indicator. Legal types are 'dot' and + 'bar'. Equivalent to '--progress=STRING'. protocol_directories = on/off When set, use the protocol name as a directory component of local - file names. The same as `--protocol-directories'. + file names. The same as '--protocol-directories'. proxy_password = STRING Set proxy authentication password to STRING, like - `--proxy-password=STRING'. + '--proxy-password=STRING'. proxy_user = STRING Set proxy authentication user name to STRING, like - `--proxy-user=STRING'. + '--proxy-user=STRING'. quiet = on/off - Quiet mode--the same as `-q'. + Quiet mode--the same as '-q'. quota = QUOTA Specify the download quota, which is useful to put in the global - `wgetrc'. When download quota is specified, Wget will stop + 'wgetrc'. When download quota is specified, Wget will stop retrieving after the download sum has become greater than quota. - The quota can be specified in bytes (default), kbytes `k' - appended) or mbytes (`m' appended). Thus `quota = 5m' will set - the quota to 5 megabytes. Note that the user's startup file - overrides system settings. + The quota can be specified in bytes (default), kbytes 'k' appended) + or mbytes ('m' appended). Thus 'quota = 5m' will set the quota to + 5 megabytes. Note that the user's startup file overrides system + settings. random_file = FILE Use FILE as a source of randomness on systems lacking - `/dev/random'. + '/dev/random'. random_wait = on/off - Turn random between-request wait times on or off. The same as - `--random-wait'. + Turn random between-request wait times on or off. The same as + '--random-wait'. read_timeout = N - Set the read (and write) timeout--the same as `--read-timeout=N'. + Set the read (and write) timeout--the same as '--read-timeout=N'. reclevel = N - Recursion level (depth)--the same as `-l N'. + Recursion level (depth)--the same as '-l N'. recursive = on/off - Recursive on/off--the same as `-r'. + Recursive on/off--the same as '-r'. referer = STRING - Set HTTP `Referer:' header just like `--referer=STRING'. (Note + Set HTTP 'Referer:' header just like '--referer=STRING'. (Note that it was the folks who wrote the HTTP spec who got the spelling of "referrer" wrong.) relative_only = on/off - Follow only relative links--the same as `-L' (*note Relative + Follow only relative links--the same as '-L' (*note Relative Links::). remote_encoding = ENCODING Force Wget to use ENCODING as the default remote server encoding. - See `--remote-encoding'. + See '--remote-encoding'. remove_listing = on/off If set to on, remove FTP listings downloaded by Wget. Setting it - to off is the same as `--no-remove-listing'. + to off is the same as '--no-remove-listing'. restrict_file_names = unix/windows Restrict the file names generated by Wget from URLs. See - `--restrict-file-names' for a more detailed description. + '--restrict-file-names' for a more detailed description. retr_symlinks = on/off When set to on, retrieve symbolic links as if they were plain - files; the same as `--retr-symlinks'. + files; the same as '--retr-symlinks'. retry_connrefused = on/off When set to on, consider "connection refused" a transient - error--the same as `--retry-connrefused'. + error--the same as '--retry-connrefused'. robots = on/off Specify whether the norobots convention is respected by Wget, "on" - by default. This switch controls both the `/robots.txt' and the - `nofollow' aspect of the spec. *Note Robot Exclusion::, for more + by default. This switch controls both the '/robots.txt' and the + 'nofollow' aspect of the spec. *Note Robot Exclusion::, for more details about this. Be sure you know what you are doing before turning this off. save_cookies = FILE - Save cookies to FILE. The same as `--save-cookies FILE'. + Save cookies to FILE. The same as '--save-cookies FILE'. save_headers = on/off - Same as `--save-headers'. + Same as '--save-headers'. secure_protocol = STRING - Choose the secure protocol to be used. Legal values are `auto' - (the default), `SSLv2', `SSLv3', and `TLSv1'. The same as - `--secure-protocol=STRING'. + Choose the secure protocol to be used. Legal values are 'auto' + (the default), 'SSLv2', 'SSLv3', and 'TLSv1'. The same as + '--secure-protocol=STRING'. server_response = on/off Choose whether or not to print the HTTP and FTP server - responses--the same as `-S'. + responses--the same as '-S'. show_all_dns_entries = on/off When a DNS name is resolved, show all the IP addresses, not just the first three. span_hosts = on/off - Same as `-H'. + Same as '-H'. spider = on/off - Same as `--spider'. + Same as '--spider'. strict_comments = on/off - Same as `--strict-comments'. + Same as '--strict-comments'. timeout = N - Set all applicable timeout values to N, the same as `-T N'. + Set all applicable timeout values to N, the same as '-T N'. timestamping = on/off - Turn timestamping on/off. The same as `-N' (*note + Turn timestamping on/off. The same as '-N' (*note Time-Stamping::). use_server_timestamps = on/off - If set to `off', Wget won't set the local file's timestamp by the - one on the server (same as `--no-use-server-timestamps'). + If set to 'off', Wget won't set the local file's timestamp by the + one on the server (same as '--no-use-server-timestamps'). tries = N - Set number of retries per URL--the same as `-t N'. + Set number of retries per URL--the same as '-t N'. use_proxy = on/off When set to off, don't use proxy even when proxy-related environment variables are set. In that case it is the same as - using `--no-proxy'. + using '--no-proxy'. user = STRING - Specify username STRING for both FTP and HTTP file retrieval. - This command can be overridden using the `ftp_user' and - `http_user' command for FTP and HTTP respectively. + Specify username STRING for both FTP and HTTP file retrieval. This + command can be overridden using the 'ftp_user' and 'http_user' + command for FTP and HTTP respectively. user_agent = STRING User agent identification sent to the HTTP Server--the same as - `--user-agent=STRING'. + '--user-agent=STRING'. verbose = on/off - Turn verbose on/off--the same as `-v'/`-nv'. + Turn verbose on/off--the same as '-v'/'-nv'. wait = N - Wait N seconds between retrievals--the same as `-w N'. + Wait N seconds between retrievals--the same as '-w N'. wait_retry = N - Wait up to N seconds between retries of failed retrievals - only--the same as `--waitretry=N'. Note that this is turned on by - default in the global `wgetrc'. + Wait up to N seconds between retries of failed retrievals only--the + same as '--waitretry=N'. Note that this is turned on by default in + the global 'wgetrc'. File: wget.info, Node: Sample Wgetrc, Prev: Wgetrc Commands, Up: Startup File @@ -2940,11 +3009,11 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Sample Wgetrc, Prev: Wgetrc Commands, Up: Startup File This is the sample initialization file, as given in the distribution. It is divided in two section--one for global usage (suitable for global -startup file), and one for local usage (suitable for `$HOME/.wgetrc'). +startup file), and one for local usage (suitable for '$HOME/.wgetrc'). Be careful about the things you change. Note that almost all the lines are commented out. For a command to -have any effect, you must remove the `#' character at the beginning of +have any effect, you must remove the '#' character at the beginning of its line. ### @@ -2954,7 +3023,10 @@ its line. ## You can use this file to change the default behaviour of wget or to ## avoid having to type many many command-line options. This file does ## not contain a comprehensive list of commands -- look at the manual - ## to find out what you can put into this file. + ## to find out what you can put into this file. You can find this here: + ## $ info wget.info 'Startup File' + ## Or online here: + ## https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Startup-File ## ## Wget initialization file can reside in /usr/local/etc/wgetrc ## (global, for all users) or $HOME/.wgetrc (for a single user). @@ -3073,6 +3145,12 @@ its line. # Force the default remote server encoding #remoteencoding = UTF-8 + # Turn on to prevent following non-HTTPS links when in recursive mode + #httpsonly = off + + # Tune HTTPS security (auto, SSLv2, SSLv3, TLSv1, PFS) + #secureprotocol = auto + File: wget.info, Node: Examples, Next: Various, Prev: Startup File, Up: Top @@ -3109,13 +3187,13 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Simple Usage, Next: Advanced Usage, Prev: Examples, U wget --tries=45 http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg * Now let's leave Wget to work in the background, and write its - progress to log file `log'. It is tiring to type `--tries', so we - shall use `-t'. + progress to log file 'log'. It is tiring to type '--tries', so we + shall use '-t'. wget -t 45 -o log http://fly.srk.fer.hr/jpg/flyweb.jpg & The ampersand at the end of the line makes sure that Wget works in - the background. To unlimit the number of retries, use `-t inf'. + the background. To unlimit the number of retries, use '-t inf'. * The usage of FTP is as simple. Wget will take care of login and password. @@ -3135,16 +3213,16 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Advanced Usage, Next: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Simpl ================== * You have a file that contains the URLs you want to download? Use - the `-i' switch: + the '-i' switch: wget -i FILE - If you specify `-' as file name, the URLs will be read from + If you specify '-' as file name, the URLs will be read from standard input. * Create a five levels deep mirror image of the GNU web site, with the same directory structure the original has, with only one try - per document, saving the log of the activities to `gnulog': + per document, saving the log of the activities to 'gnulog': wget -r http://www.gnu.org/ -o gnulog @@ -3161,19 +3239,19 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Advanced Usage, Next: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Simpl wget -p --convert-links http://www.server.com/dir/page.html - The HTML page will be saved to `www.server.com/dir/page.html', and - the images, stylesheets, etc., somewhere under `www.server.com/', + The HTML page will be saved to 'www.server.com/dir/page.html', and + the images, stylesheets, etc., somewhere under 'www.server.com/', depending on where they were on the remote server. - * The same as the above, but without the `www.server.com/' directory. + * The same as the above, but without the 'www.server.com/' directory. In fact, I don't want to have all those random server directories - anyway--just save _all_ those files under a `download/' + anyway--just save _all_ those files under a 'download/' subdirectory of the current directory. wget -p --convert-links -nH -nd -Pdownload \ http://www.server.com/dir/page.html - * Retrieve the index.html of `www.lycos.com', showing the original + * Retrieve the index.html of 'www.lycos.com', showing the original server headers: wget -S http://www.lycos.com/ @@ -3183,23 +3261,23 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Advanced Usage, Next: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Simpl wget --save-headers http://www.lycos.com/ more index.html - * Retrieve the first two levels of `wuarchive.wustl.edu', saving them - to `/tmp'. + * Retrieve the first two levels of 'wuarchive.wustl.edu', saving them + to '/tmp'. wget -r -l2 -P/tmp ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/ * You want to download all the GIFs from a directory on an HTTP - server. You tried `wget http://www.server.com/dir/*.gif', but that + server. You tried 'wget http://www.server.com/dir/*.gif', but that didn't work because HTTP retrieval does not support globbing. In that case, use: wget -r -l1 --no-parent -A.gif http://www.server.com/dir/ - More verbose, but the effect is the same. `-r -l1' means to + More verbose, but the effect is the same. '-r -l1' means to retrieve recursively (*note Recursive Download::), with maximum - depth of 1. `--no-parent' means that references to the parent + depth of 1. '--no-parent' means that references to the parent directory are ignored (*note Directory-Based Limits::), and - `-A.gif' means to download only the GIF files. `-A "*.gif"' would + '-A.gif' means to download only the GIF files. '-A "*.gif"' would have worked too. * Suppose you were in the middle of downloading, when Wget was @@ -3214,16 +3292,16 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Advanced Usage, Next: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Simpl wget ftp://hniksic:mypassword@unix.server.com/.emacs Note, however, that this usage is not advisable on multi-user - systems because it reveals your password to anyone who looks at - the output of `ps'. + systems because it reveals your password to anyone who looks at the + output of 'ps'. * You would like the output documents to go to standard output instead of to files? wget -O - http://jagor.srce.hr/ http://www.srce.hr/ - You can also combine the two options and make pipelines to - retrieve the documents from remote hotlists: + You can also combine the two options and make pipelines to retrieve + the documents from remote hotlists: wget -O - http://cool.list.com/ | wget --force-html -i - @@ -3234,8 +3312,8 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Advanced Usage, Up: Example ======================= * If you wish Wget to keep a mirror of a page (or FTP - subdirectories), use `--mirror' (`-m'), which is the shorthand for - `-r -l inf -N'. You can put Wget in the crontab file asking it to + subdirectories), use '--mirror' ('-m'), which is the shorthand for + '-r -l inf -N'. You can put Wget in the crontab file asking it to recheck a site each Sunday: crontab @@ -3244,17 +3322,17 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Advanced Usage, Up: Example * In addition to the above, you want the links to be converted for local viewing. But, after having read this manual, you know that link conversion doesn't play well with timestamping, so you also - want Wget to back up the original HTML files before the - conversion. Wget invocation would look like this: + want Wget to back up the original HTML files before the conversion. + Wget invocation would look like this: wget --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted \ http://www.gnu.org/ -o /home/me/weeklog * But you've also noticed that local viewing doesn't work all that - well when HTML files are saved under extensions other than `.html', - perhaps because they were served as `index.cgi'. So you'd like - Wget to rename all the files served with content-type `text/html' - or `application/xhtml+xml' to `NAME.html'. + well when HTML files are saved under extensions other than '.html', + perhaps because they were served as 'index.cgi'. So you'd like + Wget to rename all the files served with content-type 'text/html' + or 'application/xhtml+xml' to 'NAME.html'. wget --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted \ --html-extension -o /home/me/weeklog \ @@ -3292,67 +3370,66 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Proxies, Next: Distribution, Prev: Various, Up: Vario "Proxies" are special-purpose HTTP servers designed to transfer data from remote servers to local clients. One typical use of proxies is lightening network load for users behind a slow connection. This is -achieved by channeling all HTTP and FTP requests through the proxy -which caches the transferred data. When a cached resource is requested -again, proxy will return the data from cache. Another use for proxies -is for companies that separate (for security reasons) their internal -networks from the rest of Internet. In order to obtain information -from the Web, their users connect and retrieve remote data using an -authorized proxy. - - Wget supports proxies for both HTTP and FTP retrievals. The -standard way to specify proxy location, which Wget recognizes, is using -the following environment variables: - -`http_proxy' -`https_proxy' - If set, the `http_proxy' and `https_proxy' variables should - contain the URLs of the proxies for HTTP and HTTPS connections +achieved by channeling all HTTP and FTP requests through the proxy which +caches the transferred data. When a cached resource is requested again, +proxy will return the data from cache. Another use for proxies is for +companies that separate (for security reasons) their internal networks +from the rest of Internet. In order to obtain information from the Web, +their users connect and retrieve remote data using an authorized proxy. + + Wget supports proxies for both HTTP and FTP retrievals. The standard +way to specify proxy location, which Wget recognizes, is using the +following environment variables: + +'http_proxy' +'https_proxy' + If set, the 'http_proxy' and 'https_proxy' variables should contain + the URLs of the proxies for HTTP and HTTPS connections respectively. -`ftp_proxy' +'ftp_proxy' This variable should contain the URL of the proxy for FTP - connections. It is quite common that `http_proxy' and `ftp_proxy' + connections. It is quite common that 'http_proxy' and 'ftp_proxy' are set to the same URL. -`no_proxy' +'no_proxy' This variable should contain a comma-separated list of domain extensions proxy should _not_ be used for. For instance, if the - value of `no_proxy' is `.mit.edu', proxy will not be used to + value of 'no_proxy' is '.mit.edu', proxy will not be used to retrieve documents from MIT. In addition to the environment variables, proxy location and settings may be specified from within Wget itself. -`--no-proxy' -`proxy = on/off' +'--no-proxy' +'proxy = on/off' This option and the corresponding command may be used to suppress - the use of proxy, even if the appropriate environment variables - are set. + the use of proxy, even if the appropriate environment variables are + set. -`http_proxy = URL' -`https_proxy = URL' -`ftp_proxy = URL' -`no_proxy = STRING' +'http_proxy = URL' +'https_proxy = URL' +'ftp_proxy = URL' +'no_proxy = STRING' These startup file variables allow you to override the proxy settings specified by the environment. Some proxy servers require authorization to enable you to use them. The authorization consists of "username" and "password", which must be sent by Wget. As with HTTP authorization, several authentication -schemes exist. For proxy authorization only the `Basic' authentication +schemes exist. For proxy authorization only the 'Basic' authentication scheme is currently implemented. You may specify your username and password either through the proxy URL or through the command-line options. Assuming that the company's -proxy is located at `proxy.company.com' at port 8001, a proxy URL +proxy is located at 'proxy.company.com' at port 8001, a proxy URL location containing authorization data might look like this: http://hniksic:mypassword@proxy.company.com:8001/ - Alternatively, you may use the `proxy-user' and `proxy-password' -options, and the equivalent `.wgetrc' settings `proxy_user' and -`proxy_password' to set the proxy username and password. + Alternatively, you may use the 'proxy-user' and 'proxy-password' +options, and the equivalent '.wgetrc' settings 'proxy_user' and +'proxy_password' to set the proxy username and password. File: wget.info, Node: Distribution, Next: Web Site, Prev: Proxies, Up: Various @@ -3361,9 +3438,8 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Distribution, Next: Web Site, Prev: Proxies, Up: Vari ================ Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the -master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example, -Wget 1.14 can be found at -`ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.14.tar.gz' +master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors. For example, Wget +1.15 can be found at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.15.tar.gz> File: wget.info, Node: Web Site, Next: Mailing Lists, Prev: Distribution, Up: Various @@ -3372,8 +3448,8 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Web Site, Next: Mailing Lists, Prev: Distribution, Up ============ The official web site for GNU Wget is at -`http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/'. However, most useful information -resides at "The Wget Wgiki", `http://wget.addictivecode.org/'. +<http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>. However, most useful information +resides at "The Wget Wgiki", <http://wget.addictivecode.org/>. File: wget.info, Node: Mailing Lists, Next: Internet Relay Chat, Prev: Web Site, Up: Various @@ -3385,32 +3461,32 @@ Primary List ------------ The primary mailinglist for discussion, bug-reports, or questions about -GNU Wget is at <bug-wget@gnu.org>. To subscribe, send an email to +GNU Wget is at <bug-wget@gnu.org>. To subscribe, send an email to <bug-wget-join@gnu.org>, or visit -`http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-wget'. +<http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-wget>. You do not need to subscribe to send a message to the list; however, please note that unsubscribed messages are moderated, and may take a while before they hit the list--*usually around a day*. If you want -your message to show up immediately, please subscribe to the list -before posting. Archives for the list may be found at -`http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-wget/'. +your message to show up immediately, please subscribe to the list before +posting. Archives for the list may be found at +<http://lists.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-wget/>. An NNTP/Usenettish gateway is also available via Gmane -(http://gmane.org/about.php). You can see the Gmane archives at -`http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general'. Note that the -Gmane archives conveniently include messages from both the current -list, and the previous one. Messages also show up in the Gmane archives -sooner than they do at `lists.gnu.org'. +(http://gmane.org/about.php). You can see the Gmane archives at +<http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general>. Note that the +Gmane archives conveniently include messages from both the current list, +and the previous one. Messages also show up in the Gmane archives +sooner than they do at <lists.gnu.org>. Bug Notices List ---------------- -Additionally, there is the <wget-notify@addictivecode.org> mailing -list. This is a non-discussion list that receives bug report -notifications from the bug-tracker. To subscribe to this list, send an -email to <wget-notify-join@addictivecode.org>, or visit -`http://addictivecode.org/mailman/listinfo/wget-notify'. +Additionally, there is the <wget-notify@addictivecode.org> mailing list. +This is a non-discussion list that receives bug report notifications +from the bug-tracker. To subscribe to this list, send an email to +<wget-notify-join@addictivecode.org>, or visit +<http://addictivecode.org/mailman/listinfo/wget-notify>. Obsolete Lists -------------- @@ -3420,13 +3496,12 @@ discussion list, and another list, <wget-patches@sunsite.dk> was used for submitting and discussing patches to GNU Wget. Messages from <wget@sunsite.dk> are archived at - `http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/' and at - - `http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general' (which also + <http://www.mail-archive.com/wget%40sunsite.dk/> and at + <http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general> (which also continues to archive the current list, <bug-wget@gnu.org>). Messages from <wget-patches@sunsite.dk> are archived at - `http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.patches'. + <http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.patches>. File: wget.info, Node: Internet Relay Chat, Next: Reporting Bugs, Prev: Mailing Lists, Up: Various @@ -3435,7 +3510,7 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Internet Relay Chat, Next: Reporting Bugs, Prev: Maili ======================= In addition to the mailinglists, we also have a support channel set up -via IRC at `irc.freenode.org', `#wget'. Come check it out! +via IRC at 'irc.freenode.org', '#wget'. Come check it out! File: wget.info, Node: Reporting Bugs, Next: Portability, Prev: Internet Relay Chat, Up: Various @@ -3444,7 +3519,7 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Reporting Bugs, Next: Portability, Prev: Internet Rela ================== You are welcome to submit bug reports via the GNU Wget bug tracker (see -`http://wget.addictivecode.org/BugTracker'). +<http://wget.addictivecode.org/BugTracker>). Before actually submitting a bug report, please try to follow a few simple guidelines. @@ -3456,37 +3531,37 @@ simple guidelines. bug, but you might want to double-check the documentation and the mailing lists (*note Mailing Lists::). - 2. Try to repeat the bug in as simple circumstances as possible. - E.g. if Wget crashes while downloading `wget -rl0 -kKE -t5 - --no-proxy http://yoyodyne.com -o /tmp/log', you should try to see - if the crash is repeatable, and if will occur with a simpler set - of options. You might even try to start the download at the page + 2. Try to repeat the bug in as simple circumstances as possible. E.g. + if Wget crashes while downloading 'wget -rl0 -kKE -t5 --no-proxy + http://yoyodyne.com -o /tmp/log', you should try to see if the + crash is repeatable, and if will occur with a simpler set of + options. You might even try to start the download at the page where the crash occurred to see if that page somehow triggered the crash. Also, while I will probably be interested to know the contents of - your `.wgetrc' file, just dumping it into the debug message is + your '.wgetrc' file, just dumping it into the debug message is probably a bad idea. Instead, you should first try to see if the - bug repeats with `.wgetrc' moved out of the way. Only if it turns - out that `.wgetrc' settings affect the bug, mail me the relevant + bug repeats with '.wgetrc' moved out of the way. Only if it turns + out that '.wgetrc' settings affect the bug, mail me the relevant parts of the file. - 3. Please start Wget with `-d' option and send us the resulting - output (or relevant parts thereof). If Wget was compiled without - debug support, recompile it--it is _much_ easier to trace bugs - with debug support on. + 3. Please start Wget with '-d' option and send us the resulting output + (or relevant parts thereof). If Wget was compiled without debug + support, recompile it--it is _much_ easier to trace bugs with debug + support on. Note: please make sure to remove any potentially sensitive information from the debug log before sending it to the bug - address. The `-d' won't go out of its way to collect sensitive + address. The '-d' won't go out of its way to collect sensitive information, but the log _will_ contain a fairly complete transcript of Wget's communication with the server, which may include passwords and pieces of downloaded data. Since the bug - address is publically archived, you may assume that all bug - reports are visible to the public. + address is publically archived, you may assume that all bug reports + are visible to the public. - 4. If Wget has crashed, try to run it in a debugger, e.g. `gdb `which - wget` core' and type `where' to get the backtrace. This may not + 4. If Wget has crashed, try to run it in a debugger, e.g. 'gdb `which + wget` core' and type 'where' to get the backtrace. This may not work if the system administrator has disabled core files, but it is safe to try. @@ -3514,14 +3589,14 @@ successfully using MS Visual C++ 6.0, Watcom, Borland C, and GCC compilers. Naturally, it is crippled of some features available on Unix, but it should work as a substitute for people stuck with Windows. Note that Windows-specific portions of Wget are not guaranteed to be -supported in the future, although this has been the case in practice -for many years now. All questions and problems in Windows usage should -be reported to Wget mailing list at <wget@sunsite.dk> where the -volunteers who maintain the Windows-related features might look at them. +supported in the future, although this has been the case in practice for +many years now. All questions and problems in Windows usage should be +reported to Wget mailing list at <wget@sunsite.dk> where the volunteers +who maintain the Windows-related features might look at them. Support for building on MS-DOS via DJGPP has been contributed by Gisle Vanem; a port to VMS is maintained by Steven Schweda, and is -available at `http://antinode.org/'. +available at <http://antinode.org/>. File: wget.info, Node: Signals, Prev: Portability, Up: Various @@ -3530,10 +3605,10 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Signals, Prev: Portability, Up: Various =========== Since the purpose of Wget is background work, it catches the hangup -signal (`SIGHUP') and ignores it. If the output was on standard -output, it will be redirected to a file named `wget-log'. Otherwise, -`SIGHUP' is ignored. This is convenient when you wish to redirect the -output of Wget after having started it. +signal ('SIGHUP') and ignores it. If the output was on standard output, +it will be redirected to a file named 'wget-log'. Otherwise, 'SIGHUP' +is ignored. This is convenient when you wish to redirect the output of +Wget after having started it. $ wget http://www.gnus.org/dist/gnus.tar.gz & ... @@ -3541,7 +3616,7 @@ output of Wget after having started it. SIGHUP received, redirecting output to `wget-log'. Other than that, Wget will not try to interfere with signals in any -way. `C-c', `kill -TERM' and `kill -KILL' should kill it alike. +way. 'C-c', 'kill -TERM' and 'kill -KILL' should kill it alike. File: wget.info, Node: Appendices, Next: Copying this manual, Prev: Various, Up: Top @@ -3564,13 +3639,13 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Robot Exclusion, Next: Security Considerations, Prev: =================== It is extremely easy to make Wget wander aimlessly around a web site, -sucking all the available data in progress. `wget -r SITE', and you're +sucking all the available data in progress. 'wget -r SITE', and you're set. Great? Not for the server admin. As long as Wget is only retrieving static pages, and doing it at a -reasonable rate (see the `--wait' option), there's not much of a +reasonable rate (see the '--wait' option), there's not much of a problem. The trouble is that Wget can't tell the difference between the -smallest static page and the most demanding CGI. A site I know has a +smallest static page and the most demanding CGI. A site I know has a section handled by a CGI Perl script that converts Info files to HTML on the fly. The script is slow, but works well enough for human users viewing an occasional Info file. However, when someone's recursive Wget @@ -3578,7 +3653,7 @@ download stumbles upon the index page that links to all the Info files through the script, the system is brought to its knees without providing anything useful to the user (This task of converting Info files could be done locally and access to Info documentation for all installed GNU -software on a system is available from the `info' command). +software on a system is available from the 'info' command). To avoid this kind of accident, as well as to preserve privacy for documents that need to be protected from well-behaved robots, the @@ -3588,10 +3663,10 @@ site they wish to protect from robots and those they will permit access. The most popular mechanism, and the de facto standard supported by all the major robots, is the "Robots Exclusion Standard" (RES) written -by Martijn Koster et al. in 1994. It specifies the format of a text +by Martijn Koster et al. in 1994. It specifies the format of a text file containing directives that instruct the robots which URL paths to avoid. To be found by the robots, the specifications must be placed in -`/robots.txt' in the server root, which the robots are expected to +'/robots.txt' in the server root, which the robots are expected to download and parse. Although Wget is not a web robot in the strictest sense of the word, @@ -3601,37 +3676,36 @@ downloading recursively. For instance, when you issue: wget -r http://www.server.com/ - First the index of `www.server.com' will be downloaded. If Wget + First the index of 'www.server.com' will be downloaded. If Wget finds that it wants to download more documents from that server, it will -request `http://www.server.com/robots.txt' and, if found, use it for -further downloads. `robots.txt' is loaded only once per each server. +request 'http://www.server.com/robots.txt' and, if found, use it for +further downloads. 'robots.txt' is loaded only once per each server. Until version 1.8, Wget supported the first version of the standard, written by Martijn Koster in 1994 and available at -`http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html'. As of version 1.8, Wget +<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots.html>. As of version 1.8, Wget has supported the additional directives specified in the internet draft -`<draft-koster-robots-00.txt>' titled "A Method for Web Robots -Control". The draft, which has as far as I know never made to an RFC, -is available at `http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt'. +'<draft-koster-robots-00.txt>' titled "A Method for Web Robots Control". +The draft, which has as far as I know never made to an RFC, is available +at <http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>. This manual no longer includes the text of the Robot Exclusion Standard. The second, less known mechanism, enables the author of an individual document to specify whether they want the links from the file to be -followed by a robot. This is achieved using the `META' tag, like this: +followed by a robot. This is achieved using the 'META' tag, like this: <meta name="robots" content="nofollow"> This is explained in some detail at -`http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html'. Wget supports this -method of robot exclusion in addition to the usual `/robots.txt' -exclusion. +<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html>. Wget supports this method +of robot exclusion in addition to the usual '/robots.txt' exclusion. If you know what you are doing and really really wish to turn off the -robot exclusion, set the `robots' variable to `off' in your `.wgetrc'. -You can achieve the same effect from the command line using the `-e' -switch, e.g. `wget -e robots=off URL...'. +robot exclusion, set the 'robots' variable to 'off' in your '.wgetrc'. +You can achieve the same effect from the command line using the '-e' +switch, e.g. 'wget -e robots=off URL...'. File: wget.info, Node: Security Considerations, Next: Contributors, Prev: Robot Exclusion, Up: Appendices @@ -3643,10 +3717,10 @@ When using Wget, you must be aware that it sends unencrypted passwords through the network, which may present a security problem. Here are the main issues, and some solutions. - 1. The passwords on the command line are visible using `ps'. The best - way around it is to use `wget -i -' and feed the URLs to Wget's - standard input, each on a separate line, terminated by `C-d'. - Another workaround is to use `.netrc' to store passwords; however, + 1. The passwords on the command line are visible using 'ps'. The best + way around it is to use 'wget -i -' and feed the URLs to Wget's + standard input, each on a separate line, terminated by 'C-d'. + Another workaround is to use '.netrc' to store passwords; however, storing unencrypted passwords is also considered a security risk. 2. Using the insecure "basic" authentication scheme, unencrypted @@ -3668,14 +3742,14 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Contributors, Prev: Security Considerations, Up: Appen GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>. -However, the development of Wget could never have gone as far as it + However, the development of Wget could never have gone as far as it has, were it not for the help of many people, either with bug reports, feature proposals, patches, or letters saying "Thanks!". Special thanks goes to the following people (no particular order): * Dan Harkless--contributed a lot of code and documentation of - extremely high quality, as well as the `--page-requisites' and + extremely high quality, as well as the '--page-requisites' and related options. He was the principal maintainer for some time and released Wget 1.6. @@ -3694,10 +3768,10 @@ feature proposals, patches, or letters saying "Thanks!". * Shawn McHorse--bug reports and patches. - * Kaveh R. Ghazi--on-the-fly `ansi2knr'-ization. Lots of - portability fixes. + * Kaveh R. Ghazi--on-the-fly 'ansi2knr'-ization. Lots of portability + fixes. - * Gordon Matzigkeit--`.netrc' support. + * Gordon Matzigkeit--'.netrc' support. * Zlatko Calusic, Tomislav Vujec and Drazen Kacar--feature suggestions and "philosophical" discussions. @@ -3715,11 +3789,11 @@ feature proposals, patches, or letters saying "Thanks!". * Karl Eichwalder--lots of help with internationalization, Makefile layout and many other things. - * Junio Hamano--donated support for Opie and HTTP `Digest' + * Junio Hamano--donated support for Opie and HTTP 'Digest' authentication. * Mauro Tortonesi--improved IPv6 support, adding support for dual - family systems. Refactored and enhanced FTP IPv6 code. Maintained + family systems. Refactored and enhanced FTP IPv6 code. Maintained GNU Wget from 2004-2007. * Christopher G. Lewis--maintenance of the Windows version of GNU @@ -3748,33 +3822,33 @@ suggestions, beta testing services, fan mail and all the other things that make maintenance so much fun: Tim Adam, Adrian Aichner, Martin Baehr, Dieter Baron, Roger Beeman, -Dan Berger, T. Bharath, Christian Biere, Paul Bludov, Daniel Bodea, -Mark Boyns, John Burden, Julien Buty, Wanderlei Cavassin, Gilles Cedoc, -Tim Charron, Noel Cragg, Kristijan Conkas, John Daily, Andreas Damm, -Ahmon Dancy, Andrew Davison, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Alexander Dergachev, -Andrew Deryabin, Ulrich Drepper, Marc Duponcheel, Damir Dzeko, Alan -Eldridge, Hans-Andreas Engel, Aleksandar Erkalovic, Andy Eskilsson, -Joao Ferreira, Christian Fraenkel, David Fritz, Mike Frysinger, Charles -C. Fu, FUJISHIMA Satsuki, Masashi Fujita, Howard Gayle, Marcel Gerrits, -Lemble Gregory, Hans Grobler, Alain Guibert, Mathieu Guillaume, Aaron -Hawley, Jochen Hein, Karl Heuer, Madhusudan Hosaagrahara, HIROSE -Masaaki, Ulf Harnhammar, Gregor Hoffleit, Erik Magnus Hulthen, Richard -Huveneers, Jonas Jensen, Larry Jones, Simon Josefsson, Mario Juric, -Hack Kampbjorn, Const Kaplinsky, Goran Kezunovic, Igor Khristophorov, -Robert Kleine, KOJIMA Haime, Fila Kolodny, Alexander Kourakos, Martin -Kraemer, Sami Krank, Jay Krell, Simos KSenitellis, Christian Lackas, -Hrvoje Lacko, Daniel S. Lewart, Nicolas Lichtmeier, Dave Love, -Alexander V. Lukyanov, Thomas Lussnig, Andre Majorel, Aurelien Marchand, -Matthew J. Mellon, Jordan Mendelson, Ted Mielczarek, Robert Millan, Lin -Zhe Min, Jan Minar, Tim Mooney, Keith Moore, Adam D. Moss, Simon Munton, -Charlie Negyesi, R. K. Owen, Jim Paris, Kenny Parnell, Leonid Petrov, -Simone Piunno, Andrew Pollock, Steve Pothier, Jan Prikryl, Marin Purgar, -Csaba Raduly, Keith Refson, Bill Richardson, Tyler Riddle, Tobias -Ringstrom, Jochen Roderburg, Juan Jose Rodriguez, Maciej W. Rozycki, -Edward J. Sabol, Heinz Salzmann, Robert Schmidt, Nicolas Schodet, Benno -Schulenberg, Andreas Schwab, Steven M. Schweda, Chris Seawood, Pranab -Shenoy, Dennis Smit, Toomas Soome, Tage Stabell-Kulo, Philip Stadermann, -Daniel Stenberg, Sven Sternberger, Markus Strasser, John Summerfield, +Dan Berger, T. Bharath, Christian Biere, Paul Bludov, Daniel Bodea, Mark +Boyns, John Burden, Julien Buty, Wanderlei Cavassin, Gilles Cedoc, Tim +Charron, Noel Cragg, Kristijan Conkas, John Daily, Andreas Damm, Ahmon +Dancy, Andrew Davison, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Alexander Dergachev, Andrew +Deryabin, Ulrich Drepper, Marc Duponcheel, Damir Dzeko, Alan Eldridge, +Hans-Andreas Engel, Aleksandar Erkalovic, Andy Eskilsson, Joao Ferreira, +Christian Fraenkel, David Fritz, Mike Frysinger, Charles C. Fu, +FUJISHIMA Satsuki, Masashi Fujita, Howard Gayle, Marcel Gerrits, Lemble +Gregory, Hans Grobler, Alain Guibert, Mathieu Guillaume, Aaron Hawley, +Jochen Hein, Karl Heuer, Madhusudan Hosaagrahara, HIROSE Masaaki, Ulf +Harnhammar, Gregor Hoffleit, Erik Magnus Hulthen, Richard Huveneers, +Jonas Jensen, Larry Jones, Simon Josefsson, Mario Juric, Hack Kampbjorn, +Const Kaplinsky, Goran Kezunovic, Igor Khristophorov, Robert Kleine, +KOJIMA Haime, Fila Kolodny, Alexander Kourakos, Martin Kraemer, Sami +Krank, Jay Krell, Simos KSenitellis, Christian Lackas, Hrvoje Lacko, +Daniel S. Lewart, Nicolas Lichtmeier, Dave Love, Alexander V. Lukyanov, +Thomas Lussnig, Andre Majorel, Aurelien Marchand, Matthew J. Mellon, +Jordan Mendelson, Ted Mielczarek, Robert Millan, Lin Zhe Min, Jan Minar, +Tim Mooney, Keith Moore, Adam D. Moss, Simon Munton, Charlie Negyesi, R. +K. Owen, Jim Paris, Kenny Parnell, Leonid Petrov, Simone Piunno, Andrew +Pollock, Steve Pothier, Jan Prikryl, Marin Purgar, Csaba Raduly, Keith +Refson, Bill Richardson, Tyler Riddle, Tobias Ringstrom, Jochen +Roderburg, Juan Jose Rodriguez, Maciej W. Rozycki, Edward J. Sabol, +Heinz Salzmann, Robert Schmidt, Nicolas Schodet, Benno Schulenberg, +Andreas Schwab, Steven M. Schweda, Chris Seawood, Pranab Shenoy, Dennis +Smit, Toomas Soome, Tage Stabell-Kulo, Philip Stadermann, Daniel +Stenberg, Sven Sternberger, Markus Strasser, John Summerfield, Szakacsits Szabolcs, Mike Thomas, Philipp Thomas, Mauro Tortonesi, Dave Turner, Gisle Vanem, Rabin Vincent, Russell Vincent, Zeljko Vrba, Charles G Waldman, Douglas E. Wegscheid, Ralf Wildenhues, Joshua David @@ -3792,7 +3866,7 @@ Appendix A Copying this manual * Menu: -* GNU Free Documentation License:: Licnse for copying this manual. +* GNU Free Documentation License:: License for copying this manual. 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If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover -Texts, replace the "with...Texts." line with this: +Texts, replace the "with...Texts." line with this: with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with the Front-Cover Texts being LIST, and with the Back-Cover Texts @@ -4277,9 +4347,9 @@ combination of the three, merge those two alternatives to suit the situation. If your document contains nontrivial examples of program code, we -recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of -free software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to -permit their use in free software. +recommend releasing these examples in parallel under your choice of free +software license, such as the GNU General Public License, to permit +their use in free software. File: wget.info, Node: Concept Index, Prev: Copying this manual, Up: Top @@ -4303,37 +4373,39 @@ Concept Index * append to log: Logging and Input File Options. (line 11) * arguments: Invoking. (line 6) -* authentication <1>: HTTP Options. (line 39) -* authentication: Download Options. (line 458) +* authentication: Download Options. (line 460) +* authentication <1>: HTTP Options. (line 38) +* authentication <2>: HTTP Options. (line 358) * backing up converted files: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 71) -* bandwidth, limit: Download Options. (line 249) +* backing up files: Download Options. (line 86) +* bandwidth, limit: Download Options. (line 255) * base for relative links in input file: Logging and Input File Options. - (line 77) + (line 76) * bind address: Download Options. (line 6) * bug reports: Reporting Bugs. (line 6) * bugs: Reporting Bugs. (line 6) -* cache: HTTP Options. (line 67) -* caching of DNS lookups: Download Options. (line 334) +* cache: HTTP Options. (line 66) +* caching of DNS lookups: Download Options. (line 339) * case fold: Recursive Accept/Reject Options. - (line 51) + (line 62) * client IP address: Download Options. (line 6) -* clobbering, file: Download Options. (line 51) +* clobbering, file: Download Options. (line 50) * command line: Invoking. (line 6) * comments, HTML: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 149) -* connect timeout: Download Options. (line 232) -* Content On Error: HTTP Options. (line 307) -* Content-Disposition: HTTP Options. (line 296) -* Content-Length, ignore: HTTP Options. (line 156) -* continue retrieval: Download Options. (line 87) +* connect timeout: Download Options. (line 239) +* Content On Error: HTTP Options. (line 347) +* Content-Disposition: HTTP Options. (line 335) +* Content-Length, ignore: HTTP Options. (line 155) +* continue retrieval: Download Options. (line 92) * contributors: Contributors. (line 6) * conversion of links: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 32) -* cookies: HTTP Options. (line 76) -* cookies, loading: HTTP Options. (line 86) -* cookies, saving: HTTP Options. (line 134) -* cookies, session: HTTP Options. (line 139) +* cookies: HTTP Options. (line 75) +* cookies, loading: HTTP Options. (line 85) +* cookies, saving: HTTP Options. (line 133) +* cookies, session: HTTP Options. (line 138) * cut directories: Directory Options. (line 32) * debug: Logging and Input File Options. (line 17) @@ -4348,15 +4420,15 @@ Concept Index (line 17) * directory limits: Directory-Based Limits. (line 6) -* directory prefix: Directory Options. (line 60) -* DNS cache: Download Options. (line 334) -* DNS timeout: Download Options. (line 226) -* dot style: Download Options. (line 148) -* downloading multiple times: Download Options. (line 51) +* directory prefix: Directory Options. (line 59) +* DNS cache: Download Options. (line 339) +* DNS timeout: Download Options. (line 233) +* dot style: Download Options. (line 153) +* downloading multiple times: Download Options. (line 50) * EGD: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 101) + (line 110) * entropy, specifying source of: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 85) + (line 94) * examples: Examples. (line 6) * exclude directories: Directory-Based Limits. (line 30) @@ -4365,15 +4437,16 @@ Concept Index * FDL, GNU Free Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License. (line 6) * features: Overview. (line 6) -* file names, restrict: Download Options. (line 353) +* file names, restrict: Download Options. (line 358) +* file permissions: FTP Options. (line 73) * filling proxy cache: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 16) * follow FTP links: Recursive Accept/Reject Options. - (line 23) + (line 34) * following ftp links: FTP Links. (line 6) * following links: Following Links. (line 6) * force html: Logging and Input File Options. - (line 70) + (line 69) * ftp authentication: FTP Options. (line 6) * ftp password: FTP Options. (line 6) * ftp time-stamping: FTP Time-Stamping Internals. @@ -4381,41 +4454,41 @@ Concept Index * ftp user: FTP Options. (line 6) * globbing, toggle: FTP Options. (line 45) * hangup: Signals. (line 6) -* header, add: HTTP Options. (line 167) +* header, add: HTTP Options. (line 166) * hosts, spanning: Spanning Hosts. (line 6) * HTML comments: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 149) -* http password: HTTP Options. (line 39) -* http referer: HTTP Options. (line 208) +* http password: HTTP Options. (line 38) +* http referer: HTTP Options. (line 207) * http time-stamping: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals. (line 6) -* http user: HTTP Options. (line 39) -* idn support: Download Options. (line 471) +* http user: HTTP Options. (line 38) +* idn support: Download Options. (line 473) * ignore case: Recursive Accept/Reject Options. - (line 51) -* ignore length: HTTP Options. (line 156) + (line 62) +* ignore length: HTTP Options. (line 155) * include directories: Directory-Based Limits. (line 17) -* incomplete downloads: Download Options. (line 87) +* incomplete downloads: Download Options. (line 92) * incremental updating: Time-Stamping. (line 6) * index.html: HTTP Options. (line 6) * input-file: Logging and Input File Options. - (line 47) + (line 46) * Internet Relay Chat: Internet Relay Chat. (line 6) * invoking: Invoking. (line 6) * IP address, client: Download Options. (line 6) -* IPv6: Download Options. (line 404) +* IPv6: Download Options. (line 408) * IRC: Internet Relay Chat. (line 6) -* iri support: Download Options. (line 471) -* Keep-Alive, turning off: HTTP Options. (line 55) +* iri support: Download Options. (line 473) +* Keep-Alive, turning off: HTTP Options. (line 54) * latest version: Distribution. (line 6) -* limit bandwidth: Download Options. (line 249) +* limit bandwidth: Download Options. (line 255) * link conversion: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 32) * links: Following Links. (line 6) -* list: Mailing Lists. (line 6) -* loading cookies: HTTP Options. (line 86) -* local encoding: Download Options. (line 479) +* list: Mailing Lists. (line 5) +* loading cookies: HTTP Options. (line 85) +* local encoding: Download Options. (line 482) * location of wgetrc: Wgetrc Location. (line 6) * log file: Logging and Input File Options. (line 6) @@ -4423,183 +4496,184 @@ Concept Index * mirroring: Very Advanced Usage. (line 6) * no parent: Directory-Based Limits. (line 43) -* no-clobber: Download Options. (line 51) +* no-clobber: Download Options. (line 50) * nohup: Invoking. (line 6) -* number of retries: Download Options. (line 12) +* number of tries: Download Options. (line 11) * operating systems: Portability. (line 6) * option syntax: Option Syntax. (line 6) +* Other HTTP Methods: HTTP Options. (line 302) * output file: Logging and Input File Options. (line 6) * overview: Overview. (line 6) * page requisites: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 84) * passive ftp: FTP Options. (line 61) -* password: Download Options. (line 458) -* pause: Download Options. (line 269) -* Persistent Connections, disabling: HTTP Options. (line 55) +* password: Download Options. (line 460) +* pause: Download Options. (line 275) +* Persistent Connections, disabling: HTTP Options. (line 54) * portability: Portability. (line 6) -* POST: HTTP Options. (line 241) -* progress indicator: Download Options. (line 148) +* POST: HTTP Options. (line 240) +* progress indicator: Download Options. (line 153) * proxies: Proxies. (line 6) -* proxy <1>: HTTP Options. (line 67) -* proxy: Download Options. (line 311) -* proxy authentication: HTTP Options. (line 199) +* proxy: Download Options. (line 316) +* proxy <1>: HTTP Options. (line 66) +* proxy authentication: HTTP Options. (line 198) * proxy filling: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 16) -* proxy password: HTTP Options. (line 199) -* proxy user: HTTP Options. (line 199) +* proxy password: HTTP Options. (line 198) +* proxy user: HTTP Options. (line 198) * quiet: Logging and Input File Options. (line 28) -* quota: Download Options. (line 318) -* random wait: Download Options. (line 293) +* quota: Download Options. (line 323) +* random wait: Download Options. (line 298) * randomness, specifying source of: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 85) -* rate, limit: Download Options. (line 249) -* read timeout: Download Options. (line 237) + (line 94) +* rate, limit: Download Options. (line 255) +* read timeout: Download Options. (line 244) * recursion: Recursive Download. (line 6) * recursive download: Recursive Download. (line 6) -* redirect: HTTP Options. (line 193) +* redirect: HTTP Options. (line 192) * redirecting output: Advanced Usage. (line 89) -* referer, http: HTTP Options. (line 208) +* referer, http: HTTP Options. (line 207) * reject directories: Directory-Based Limits. (line 30) * reject suffixes: Types of Files. (line 39) * reject wildcards: Types of Files. (line 39) * relative links: Relative Links. (line 6) -* remote encoding: Download Options. (line 491) +* remote encoding: Download Options. (line 496) * reporting bugs: Reporting Bugs. (line 6) * required images, downloading: Recursive Retrieval Options. (line 84) -* resume download: Download Options. (line 87) -* retries: Download Options. (line 12) -* retries, waiting between: Download Options. (line 283) +* resume download: Download Options. (line 92) +* retries: Download Options. (line 11) +* retries, waiting between: Download Options. (line 289) * retrieving: Recursive Download. (line 6) * robot exclusion: Robot Exclusion. (line 6) * robots.txt: Robot Exclusion. (line 6) * sample wgetrc: Sample Wgetrc. (line 6) -* saving cookies: HTTP Options. (line 134) +* saving cookies: HTTP Options. (line 133) * security: Security Considerations. (line 6) * server maintenance: Robot Exclusion. (line 6) -* server response, print: Download Options. (line 192) -* server response, save: HTTP Options. (line 215) -* session cookies: HTTP Options. (line 139) +* server response, print: Download Options. (line 199) +* server response, save: HTTP Options. (line 214) +* session cookies: HTTP Options. (line 138) * signal handling: Signals. (line 6) * spanning hosts: Spanning Hosts. (line 6) * specify config: Logging and Input File Options. - (line 90) -* spider: Download Options. (line 197) + (line 89) +* spider: Download Options. (line 204) * SSL: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. (line 6) * SSL certificate: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 47) + (line 56) * SSL certificate authority: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 73) + (line 82) * SSL certificate type, specify: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 53) + (line 62) * SSL certificate, check: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 23) + (line 32) * SSL protocol, choose: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. (line 10) * startup: Startup File. (line 6) * startup file: Startup File. (line 6) * suffixes, accept: Types of Files. (line 15) * suffixes, reject: Types of Files. (line 39) -* symbolic links, retrieving: FTP Options. (line 73) +* symbolic links, retrieving: FTP Options. (line 77) * syntax of options: Option Syntax. (line 6) * syntax of wgetrc: Wgetrc Syntax. (line 6) * tag-based recursive pruning: Recursive Accept/Reject Options. - (line 27) + (line 38) * time-stamping: Time-Stamping. (line 6) * time-stamping usage: Time-Stamping Usage. (line 6) -* timeout: Download Options. (line 208) -* timeout, connect: Download Options. (line 232) -* timeout, DNS: Download Options. (line 226) -* timeout, read: Download Options. (line 237) +* timeout: Download Options. (line 215) +* timeout, connect: Download Options. (line 239) +* timeout, DNS: Download Options. (line 233) +* timeout, read: Download Options. (line 244) * timestamping: Time-Stamping. (line 6) -* tries: Download Options. (line 12) -* Trust server names: HTTP Options. (line 311) +* tries: Download Options. (line 11) +* Trust server names: HTTP Options. (line 352) * types of files: Types of Files. (line 6) -* unlink: Download Options. (line 505) +* unlink: Download Options. (line 511) * updating the archives: Time-Stamping. (line 6) * URL: URL Format. (line 6) * URL syntax: URL Format. (line 6) * usage, time-stamping: Time-Stamping Usage. (line 6) -* user: Download Options. (line 458) -* user-agent: HTTP Options. (line 219) +* user: Download Options. (line 460) +* user-agent: HTTP Options. (line 218) * various: Various. (line 6) * verbose: Logging and Input File Options. (line 32) -* wait: Download Options. (line 269) -* wait, random: Download Options. (line 293) -* waiting between retries: Download Options. (line 283) +* wait: Download Options. (line 275) +* wait, random: Download Options. (line 298) +* waiting between retries: Download Options. (line 289) * WARC: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options. - (line 120) + (line 129) * web site: Web Site. (line 6) -* Wget as spider: Download Options. (line 197) +* Wget as spider: Download Options. (line 204) * wgetrc: Startup File. (line 6) * wgetrc commands: Wgetrc Commands. (line 6) * wgetrc location: Wgetrc Location. (line 6) * wgetrc syntax: Wgetrc Syntax. (line 6) * wildcards, accept: Types of Files. (line 15) * wildcards, reject: Types of Files. (line 39) -* Windows file names: Download Options. (line 353) +* Windows file names: Download Options. 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A -copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free -Documentation License''. +Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover +Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled +``GNU Free Documentation License''. @c man end @end copying @@ -479,8 +479,7 @@ Turn off verbose without being completely quiet (use @samp{-q} for that), which means that error messages and basic information still get printed. -@item -nv -@itemx --report-speed=@var{type} +@item --report-speed=@var{type} Output bandwidth as @var{type}. The only accepted value is @samp{bits}. @cindex input-file @@ -551,10 +550,10 @@ IPs. @cindex retries @cindex tries -@cindex number of retries +@cindex number of tries @item -t @var{number} @itemx --tries=@var{number} -Set number of retries to @var{number}. Specify 0 or @samp{inf} for +Set number of tries to @var{number}. Specify 0 or @samp{inf} for infinite retrying. The default is to retry 20 times, with the exception of fatal errors like ``connection refused'' or ``not found'' (404), which are not retried. @@ -631,6 +630,13 @@ Note that when @samp{-nc} is specified, files with the suffixes @samp{.html} or @samp{.htm} will be loaded from the local disk and parsed as if they had been retrieved from the Web. +@cindex backing up files +@item --backups=@var{backups} +Before (over)writing a file, back up an existing file by adding a +@samp{.1} suffix (@samp{_1} on VMS) to the file name. Such backup +files are rotated to @samp{.2}, @samp{.3}, and so on, up to +@var{backups} (and lost beyond that). + @cindex continue retrieval @cindex incomplete downloads @cindex resume download @@ -716,9 +722,12 @@ different meaning to one dot. With the @code{default} style each dot represents 1K, there are ten dots in a cluster and 50 dots in a line. The @code{binary} style has a more ``computer''-like orientation---8K dots, 16-dots clusters and 48 dots per line (which makes for 384K -lines). The @code{mega} style is suitable for downloading very large +lines). The @code{mega} style is suitable for downloading large files---each dot represents 64K retrieved, there are eight dots in a cluster, and 48 dots on each line (so each line contains 3M). +If @code{mega} is not enough then you can use the @code{giga} +style---each dot represents 1M retrieved, there are eight dots in a +cluster, and 32 dots on each line (so each line contains 32M). Note that you can set the default style using the @code{progress} command in @file{.wgetrc}. That setting may be overridden from the @@ -733,7 +742,7 @@ Turn on time-stamping. @xref{Time-Stamping}, for details. @item --no-use-server-timestamps Don't set the local file's timestamp by the one on the server. -By default, when a file is downloaded, it's timestamps are set to +By default, when a file is downloaded, its timestamps are set to match those from the remote file. This allows the use of @samp{--timestamping} on subsequent invocations of wget. However, it is sometimes useful to base the local file's timestamp on when it was @@ -876,7 +885,7 @@ recommendation to block many unrelated users from a web site due to the actions of one. @cindex proxy -@itemx --no-proxy +@item --no-proxy Don't use proxies, even if the appropriate @code{*_proxy} environment variable is defined. @@ -977,7 +986,7 @@ are outside the range of @sc{ascii} characters (that is, greater than whose encoding does not match the one used locally. @cindex IPv6 -@itemx -4 +@item -4 @itemx --inet4-only @itemx -6 @itemx --inet6-only @@ -1458,6 +1467,11 @@ like everything else. Wget does not currently support @code{application/x-www-form-urlencoded}. Only one of @samp{--post-data} and @samp{--post-file} should be specified. +Please note that wget does not require the content to be of the form +@code{key1=value1&key2=value2}, and neither does it test for it. Wget will +simply transmit whatever data is provided to it. Most servers however expect +the POST data to be in the above format when processing HTML Forms. + Please be aware that Wget needs to know the size of the POST data in advance. Therefore the argument to @code{--post-file} must be a regular file; specifying a FIFO or something like @file{/dev/stdin} won't work. @@ -1468,14 +1482,15 @@ use chunked unless it knows it's talking to an HTTP/1.1 server. And it can't know that until it receives a response, which in turn requires the request to have been completed -- a chicken-and-egg problem. -Note: if Wget is redirected after the POST request is completed, it -will not send the POST data to the redirected URL. This is because -URLs that process POST often respond with a redirection to a regular -page, which does not desire or accept POST. It is not completely -clear that this behavior is optimal; if it doesn't work out, it might -be changed in the future. +Note: As of version 1.15 if Wget is redirected after the POST request is +completed, its behaviour will depend on the response code returned by the +server. In case of a 301 Moved Permanently, 302 Moved Temporarily or +307 Temporary Redirect, Wget will, in accordance with RFC2616, continue +to send a POST request. +In case a server wants the client to change the Request method upon +redirection, it should send a 303 See Other response code. -This example shows how to log to a server using POST and then proceed to +This example shows how to log in to a server using POST and then proceed to download the desired pages, presumably only accessible to authorized users: @@ -1498,6 +1513,37 @@ them (and neither will browsers) and the @file{cookies.txt} file will be empty. In that case use @samp{--keep-session-cookies} along with @samp{--save-cookies} to force saving of session cookies. +@cindex Other HTTP Methods +@item --method=@var{HTTP-Method} +For the purpose of RESTful scripting, Wget allows sending of other HTTP Methods +without the need to explicitly set them using @samp{--header=Header-Line}. +Wget will use whatever string is passed to it after @samp{--method} as the HTTP +Method to the server. + +@item --body-data=@var{Data-String} +@itemx --body-file=@var{Data-File} +Must be set when additional data needs to be sent to the server along with the +Method specified using @samp{--method}. @samp{--body-data} sends @var{string} as +data, whereas @samp{--body-file} sends the contents of @var{file}. Other than that, +they work in exactly the same way. + +Currently, @samp{--body-file} is @emph{not} for transmitting files as a whole. +Wget does not currently support @code{multipart/form-data} for transmitting data; +only @code{application/x-www-form-urlencoded}. In the future, this may be changed +so that wget sends the @samp{--body-file} as a complete file instead of sending its +contents to the server. Please be aware that Wget needs to know the contents of +BODY Data in advance, and hence the argument to @samp{--body-file} should be a +regular file. See @samp{--post-file} for a more detailed explanation. +Only one of @samp{--body-data} and @samp{--body-file} should be specified. + +If Wget is redirected after the request is completed, Wget will +suspend the current method and send a GET request till the redirection +is completed. This is true for all redirection response codes except +307 Temporary Redirect which is used to explicitly specify that the +request method should @emph{not} change. Another exception is when +the method is set to @code{POST}, in which case the redirection rules +specified under @samp{--post-data} are followed. + @cindex Content-Disposition @item --content-disposition @@ -1549,16 +1595,24 @@ without SSL support, none of these options are available. @cindex SSL protocol, choose @item --secure-protocol=@var{protocol} Choose the secure protocol to be used. Legal values are @samp{auto}, -@samp{SSLv2}, @samp{SSLv3}, and @samp{TLSv1}. If @samp{auto} is used, -the SSL library is given the liberty of choosing the appropriate +@samp{SSLv2}, @samp{SSLv3}, @samp{TLSv1} and @samp{PFS}. If @samp{auto} +is used, the SSL library is given the liberty of choosing the appropriate protocol automatically, which is achieved by sending an SSLv2 greeting and announcing support for SSLv3 and TLSv1. This is the default. Specifying @samp{SSLv2}, @samp{SSLv3}, or @samp{TLSv1} forces the use of the corresponding protocol. This is useful when talking to old and -buggy SSL server implementations that make it hard for OpenSSL to -choose the correct protocol version. Fortunately, such servers are -quite rare. +buggy SSL server implementations that make it hard for the underlying +SSL library to choose the correct protocol version. Fortunately, such +servers are quite rare. + +Specifying @samp{PFS} enforces the use of the so-called Perfect Forward +Security cipher suites. In short, PFS adds security by creating a one-time +key for each SSL connection. It has a bit more CPU impact on client and server. +We use known to be secure ciphers (e.g. no MD4) and the TLS protocol. + +@item --https-only +When in recursive mode, only HTTPS links are followed. @cindex SSL certificate, check @item --no-check-certificate @@ -1777,6 +1831,10 @@ in some rare firewall configurations, active FTP actually works when passive FTP doesn't. If you suspect this to be the case, use this option, or set @code{passive_ftp=off} in your init file. +@cindex file permissions +@item --preserve-permissions +Preserve remote file permissions instead of permissions set by umask. + @cindex symbolic links, retrieving @item --retr-symlinks Usually, when retrieving @sc{ftp} directories recursively and a symbolic @@ -2013,6 +2071,17 @@ accept or reject (@pxref{Types of Files}). Note that if any of the wildcard characters, @samp{*}, @samp{?}, @samp{[} or @samp{]}, appear in an element of @var{acclist} or @var{rejlist}, it will be treated as a pattern, rather than a suffix. +In this case, you have to enclose the pattern into quotes to prevent +your shell from expanding it, like in @samp{-A "*.mp3"} or @samp{-A '*.mp3'}. + +@item --accept-regex @var{urlregex} +@itemx --reject-regex @var{urlregex} +Specify a regular expression to accept or reject the complete URL. + +@item --regex-type @var{regextype} +Specify the regular expression type. Possible types are @samp{posix} or +@samp{pcre}. Note that to be able to use @samp{pcre} type, wget has to be +compiled with libpcre support. @item -D @var{domain-list} @itemx --domains=@var{domain-list} @@ -2061,8 +2130,10 @@ dedicated @samp{--page-requisites} option. Ignore case when matching files and directories. This influences the behavior of -R, -A, -I, and -X options, as well as globbing implemented when downloading from FTP sites. For example, with this -option, @samp{-A *.txt} will match @samp{file1.txt}, but also +option, @samp{-A "*.txt"} will match @samp{file1.txt}, but also @samp{file2.TXT}, @samp{file3.TxT}, and so on. +The quotes in the example are to prevent the shell from expanding the +pattern. @item -H @itemx --span-hosts @@ -2830,9 +2901,11 @@ enables it). Enable/disable saving pre-converted files with the suffix @samp{.orig}---the same as @samp{-K} (which enables it). -@c @item backups = @var{number} -@c #### Document me! -@c +@item backups = @var{number} +Use up to @var{number} backups for a file. Backups are rotated by +adding an incremental counter that starts at @samp{1}. The default is +@samp{0}. + @item base = @var{string} Consider relative @sc{url}s in input files (specified via the @samp{input} command or the @samp{--input-file}/@samp{-i} option, @@ -3094,7 +3167,7 @@ display properly---the same as @samp{-p}. Change setting of passive @sc{ftp}, equivalent to the @samp{--passive-ftp} option. -@itemx password = @var{string} +@item password = @var{string} Specify password @var{string} for both @sc{ftp} and @sc{http} file retrieval. This command can be overridden using the @samp{ftp_password} and @samp{http_password} command for @sc{ftp} and @sc{http} respectively. @@ -3605,7 +3678,7 @@ In addition to the environment variables, proxy location and settings may be specified from within Wget itself. @table @samp -@itemx --no-proxy +@item --no-proxy @itemx proxy = on/off This option and the corresponding command may be used to suppress the use of proxy, even if the appropriate environment variables are set. @@ -4317,7 +4390,7 @@ subscribers of the Wget mailing list. @appendix Copying this manual @menu -* GNU Free Documentation License:: Licnse for copying this manual. +* GNU Free Documentation License:: License for copying this manual. @end menu @node GNU Free Documentation License, , Copying this manual, Copying this manual |