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-rw-r--r--doc/Makefile.am6
-rw-r--r--doc/Makefile.in60
-rw-r--r--doc/fdl.texi3
-rw-r--r--doc/stamp-vti8
-rwxr-xr-xdoc/texi2pod.pl6
-rw-r--r--doc/version.texi8
-rw-r--r--doc/wget.info2883
-rw-r--r--doc/wget.texi309
8 files changed, 1779 insertions, 1504 deletions
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
index b90f68b..5675d09 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.am
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
# Makefile for `wget' utility
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free
-# Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ wget.pod: $(srcdir)/wget.texi version.texi
$(TEXI2POD) -D VERSION="$(VERSION)" $(srcdir)/wget.texi $@
$(MAN): wget.pod
- $(POD2MAN) --center="GNU Wget" --release="GNU Wget @VERSION@" $? > $@
+ $(POD2MAN) --center="GNU Wget" --release="GNU Wget @VERSION@" --utf8 $? > $@
#wget.cat: $(MAN)
# nroff -man $? > $@
diff --git a/doc/Makefile.in b/doc/Makefile.in
index 0fd52d1..bb41fa3 100644
--- a/doc/Makefile.in
+++ b/doc/Makefile.in
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.14.1 from Makefile.am.
+# Makefile.in generated by automake 1.15 from Makefile.am.
# @configure_input@
-# Copyright (C) 1994-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1994-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This Makefile.in is free software; the Free Software Foundation
# gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@
@SET_MAKE@
# Makefile for `wget' utility
-# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free
-# Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -35,7 +35,17 @@
# Version: @VERSION@
#
VPATH = @srcdir@
-am__is_gnu_make = test -n '$(MAKEFILE_LIST)' && test -n '$(MAKELEVEL)'
+am__is_gnu_make = { \
+ if test -z '$(MAKELEVEL)'; then \
+ false; \
+ elif test -n '$(MAKE_HOST)'; then \
+ true; \
+ elif test -n '$(MAKE_VERSION)' && test -n '$(CURDIR)'; then \
+ true; \
+ else \
+ false; \
+ fi; \
+}
am__make_running_with_option = \
case $${target_option-} in \
?) ;; \
@@ -98,10 +108,6 @@ POST_UNINSTALL = :
build_triplet = @build@
host_triplet = @host@
subdir = doc
-DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(srcdir)/Makefile.am \
- $(wget_TEXINFOS) $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/mdate-sh \
- $(srcdir)/version.texi $(srcdir)/stamp-vti \
- $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/texinfo.tex
ACLOCAL_M4 = $(top_srcdir)/aclocal.m4
am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/00gnulib.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/absolute-header.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/alloca.m4 \
@@ -163,8 +169,9 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/00gnulib.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/realloc.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/regex.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/sched_h.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/secure_getenv.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/select.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/servent.m4 \
- $(top_srcdir)/m4/sha1.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sig_atomic_t.m4 \
- $(top_srcdir)/m4/sigaction.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/signal_h.m4 \
+ $(top_srcdir)/m4/sha1.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sha256.m4 \
+ $(top_srcdir)/m4/sig_atomic_t.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sigaction.m4 \
+ $(top_srcdir)/m4/signal_h.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/signalblocking.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sigpipe.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/size_max.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/snprintf.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/m4/socketlib.m4 $(top_srcdir)/m4/sockets.m4 \
@@ -204,6 +211,8 @@ am__aclocal_m4_deps = $(top_srcdir)/m4/00gnulib.m4 \
$(top_srcdir)/configure.ac
am__configure_deps = $(am__aclocal_m4_deps) $(CONFIGURE_DEPENDENCIES) \
$(ACLOCAL_M4)
+DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(srcdir)/version.texi \
+ $(srcdir)/stamp-vti $(am__DIST_COMMON)
mkinstalldirs = $(install_sh) -d
CONFIG_HEADER = $(top_builddir)/src/config.h
CONFIG_CLEAN_FILES =
@@ -296,6 +305,9 @@ am__uninstall_files_from_dir = { \
$(am__cd) "$$dir" && rm -f $$files; }; \
}
am__tagged_files = $(HEADERS) $(SOURCES) $(TAGS_FILES) $(LISP)
+am__DIST_COMMON = $(srcdir)/Makefile.in \
+ $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/mdate-sh \
+ $(top_srcdir)/build-aux/texinfo.tex $(wget_TEXINFOS)
DISTFILES = $(DIST_COMMON) $(DIST_SOURCES) $(TEXINFOS) $(EXTRA_DIST)
pkglibexecdir = @pkglibexecdir@
ACLOCAL = @ACLOCAL@
@@ -579,6 +591,7 @@ GNULIB_SYMLINKAT = @GNULIB_SYMLINKAT@
GNULIB_SYSTEM_POSIX = @GNULIB_SYSTEM_POSIX@
GNULIB_TIMEGM = @GNULIB_TIMEGM@
GNULIB_TIME_R = @GNULIB_TIME_R@
+GNULIB_TIME_RZ = @GNULIB_TIME_RZ@
GNULIB_TMPFILE = @GNULIB_TMPFILE@
GNULIB_TOWCTRANS = @GNULIB_TOWCTRANS@
GNULIB_TTYNAME_R = @GNULIB_TTYNAME_R@
@@ -641,6 +654,9 @@ GNULIB_WRITE = @GNULIB_WRITE@
GNULIB__EXIT = @GNULIB__EXIT@
GNUTLS_CFLAGS = @GNUTLS_CFLAGS@
GNUTLS_LIBS = @GNUTLS_LIBS@
+GPGME_CFLAGS = @GPGME_CFLAGS@
+GPGME_CONFIG = @GPGME_CONFIG@
+GPGME_LIBS = @GPGME_LIBS@
GREP = @GREP@
HAVE_ACCEPT4 = @HAVE_ACCEPT4@
HAVE_ARPA_INET_H = @HAVE_ARPA_INET_H@
@@ -832,6 +848,7 @@ HAVE_SYS_TIME_H = @HAVE_SYS_TIME_H@
HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H = @HAVE_SYS_TYPES_H@
HAVE_SYS_UIO_H = @HAVE_SYS_UIO_H@
HAVE_TIMEGM = @HAVE_TIMEGM@
+HAVE_TIMEZONE_T = @HAVE_TIMEZONE_T@
HAVE_TYPE_VOLATILE_SIG_ATOMIC_T = @HAVE_TYPE_VOLATILE_SIG_ATOMIC_T@
HAVE_UNISTD_H = @HAVE_UNISTD_H@
HAVE_UNLINKAT = @HAVE_UNLINKAT@
@@ -938,6 +955,8 @@ LTLIBPTH = @LTLIBPTH@
LTLIBSSL = @LTLIBSSL@
LTLIBTHREAD = @LTLIBTHREAD@
MAKEINFO = @MAKEINFO@
+METALINK_CFLAGS = @METALINK_CFLAGS@
+METALINK_LIBS = @METALINK_LIBS@
MKDIR_P = @MKDIR_P@
MSGFMT = @MSGFMT@
MSGFMT_015 = @MSGFMT_015@
@@ -1224,6 +1243,7 @@ abs_builddir = @abs_builddir@
abs_srcdir = @abs_srcdir@
abs_top_builddir = @abs_top_builddir@
abs_top_srcdir = @abs_top_srcdir@
+ac_ct_AR = @ac_ct_AR@
ac_ct_CC = @ac_ct_CC@
am__include = @am__include@
am__leading_dot = @am__leading_dot@
@@ -1325,7 +1345,6 @@ $(srcdir)/Makefile.in: $(srcdir)/Makefile.am $(am__configure_deps)
echo ' cd $(top_srcdir) && $(AUTOMAKE) --gnu doc/Makefile'; \
$(am__cd) $(top_srcdir) && \
$(AUTOMAKE) --gnu doc/Makefile
-.PRECIOUS: Makefile
Makefile: $(srcdir)/Makefile.in $(top_builddir)/config.status
@case '$?' in \
*config.status*) \
@@ -1398,15 +1417,16 @@ $(srcdir)/stamp-vti: wget.texi $(top_srcdir)/configure
echo "@set UPDATED $$1 $$2 $$3"; \
echo "@set UPDATED-MONTH $$2 $$3"; \
echo "@set EDITION $(VERSION)"; \
- echo "@set VERSION $(VERSION)") > vti.tmp
- @cmp -s vti.tmp $(srcdir)/version.texi \
- || (echo "Updating $(srcdir)/version.texi"; \
- cp vti.tmp $(srcdir)/version.texi)
- -@rm -f vti.tmp
+ echo "@set VERSION $(VERSION)") > vti.tmp$$$$ && \
+ (cmp -s vti.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi \
+ || (echo "Updating $(srcdir)/version.texi" && \
+ cp vti.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi.tmp$$$$ && \
+ mv $(srcdir)/version.texi.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi)) && \
+ rm -f vti.tmp$$$$ $(srcdir)/version.texi.$$$$
@cp $(srcdir)/version.texi $@
mostlyclean-vti:
- -rm -f vti.tmp
+ -rm -f vti.tmp* $(srcdir)/version.texi.tmp*
maintainer-clean-vti:
-rm -f $(srcdir)/stamp-vti $(srcdir)/version.texi
@@ -1758,6 +1778,8 @@ uninstall-am: uninstall-dvi-am uninstall-html-am uninstall-info-am \
uninstall-dvi-am uninstall-html-am uninstall-info-am \
uninstall-local uninstall-pdf-am uninstall-ps-am
+.PRECIOUS: Makefile
+
all: wget.info @COMMENT_IF_NO_POD2MAN@$(MAN)
@@ -1770,7 +1792,7 @@ wget.pod: $(srcdir)/wget.texi version.texi
$(TEXI2POD) -D VERSION="$(VERSION)" $(srcdir)/wget.texi $@
$(MAN): wget.pod
- $(POD2MAN) --center="GNU Wget" --release="GNU Wget @VERSION@" $? > $@
+ $(POD2MAN) --center="GNU Wget" --release="GNU Wget @VERSION@" --utf8 $? > $@
#wget.cat: $(MAN)
# nroff -man $? > $@
diff --git a/doc/fdl.texi b/doc/fdl.texi
index 9c3bbe5..a661cb8 100644
--- a/doc/fdl.texi
+++ b/doc/fdl.texi
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
@c hence no sectioning command or @node.
@display
-Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright @copyright{} 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2015 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc.
@uref{http://fsf.org/}
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
diff --git a/doc/stamp-vti b/doc/stamp-vti
index 80eebc3..26e4f2c 100644
--- a/doc/stamp-vti
+++ b/doc/stamp-vti
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@set UPDATED 31 January 2015
-@set UPDATED-MONTH January 2015
-@set EDITION 1.16.3
-@set VERSION 1.16.3
+@set UPDATED 9 November 2015
+@set UPDATED-MONTH November 2015
+@set EDITION 1.17
+@set VERSION 1.17
diff --git a/doc/texi2pod.pl b/doc/texi2pod.pl
index 9db6de1..f0ab983 100755
--- a/doc/texi2pod.pl
+++ b/doc/texi2pod.pl
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
#! /usr/bin/env perl
-# Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free
-# Software Foundation, Inc.
+# Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015
+# Free Software Foundation, Inc.
# This file is part of GCC.
@@ -315,6 +315,8 @@ die "No filename or title\n" unless defined $fn && defined $tl;
$sects{NAME} = "$fn \- $tl\n";
$sects{FOOTNOTES} .= "=back\n" if exists $sects{FOOTNOTES};
+print "=encoding utf-8\n\n";
+
for $sect (qw(NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT EXITSTATUS
FILES BUGS NOTES FOOTNOTES SEEALSO AUTHOR COPYRIGHT)) {
if(exists $sects{$sect}) {
diff --git a/doc/version.texi b/doc/version.texi
index 80eebc3..26e4f2c 100644
--- a/doc/version.texi
+++ b/doc/version.texi
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-@set UPDATED 31 January 2015
-@set UPDATED-MONTH January 2015
-@set EDITION 1.16.3
-@set VERSION 1.16.3
+@set UPDATED 9 November 2015
+@set UPDATED-MONTH November 2015
+@set EDITION 1.17
+@set VERSION 1.17
diff --git a/doc/wget.info b/doc/wget.info
index ce6d714..20760c8 100644
--- a/doc/wget.info
+++ b/doc/wget.info
@@ -1,16 +1,17 @@
-This is wget.info, produced by makeinfo version 5.2 from wget.texi.
+This is wget.info, produced by makeinfo version 6.0 from wget.texi.
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.
+ Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
+2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 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 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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".
+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.
@@ -19,20 +20,21 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY

File: wget.info, Node: Top, Next: Overview, Prev: (dir), Up: (dir)
-Wget 1.16.3
-***********
+Wget 1.17
+*********
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.
+ Copyright © 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004,
+2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 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 1.3 or
any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no
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".
+Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU
+Free Documentation License”.
* Menu:
@@ -41,9 +43,9 @@ Free Documentation License".
* Recursive Download:: Downloading interlinked pages.
* Following Links:: The available methods of chasing links.
* Time-Stamping:: Mirroring according to time-stamps.
-* Startup File:: Wget's initialization file.
+* Startup File:: Wget’s initialization file.
* Examples:: Examples of usage.
-* Various:: The stuff that doesn't fit anywhere else.
+* Various:: The stuff that doesn’t fit anywhere else.
* Appendices:: Some useful references.
* Copying this manual:: You may give out copies of this manual.
* Concept Index:: Topics covered by this manual.
@@ -58,24 +60,24 @@ GNU Wget is a free utility for non-interactive download of files from
the Web. It supports HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, as well as
retrieval through HTTP proxies.
- This chapter is a partial overview of Wget's features.
+ This chapter is a partial overview of Wget’s features.
- * Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the
+ • Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the
background, while the user is not logged on. This allows you to
start a retrieval and disconnect from the system, letting Wget
finish the work. By contrast, most of the Web browsers require
- constant user's presence, which can be a great hindrance when
+ constant user’s presence, which can be a great hindrance when
transferring a lot of data.
- * Wget can follow links in HTML, XHTML, and CSS pages, to create
+ • Wget can follow links in HTML, XHTML, and CSS pages, to create
local versions of remote web sites, fully recreating the directory
structure of the original site. This is sometimes referred to as
- "recursive downloading." While doing that, Wget respects the Robot
- Exclusion Standard ('/robots.txt'). Wget can be instructed to
+ “recursive downloading.” While doing that, Wget respects the Robot
+ 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
+ • 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
@@ -83,42 +85,42 @@ retrieval through HTTP proxies.
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
+ • Wget has been designed for robustness over slow or unstable network
connections; if a download fails due to a network problem, it will
keep retrying until the whole file has been retrieved. If the
server supports regetting, it will instruct the server to continue
the download from where it left off.
- * Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load,
+ • Wget supports proxy servers, which can lighten the network load,
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.
- * Built-in features offer mechanisms to tune which links you wish to
+ • Built-in features offer mechanisms to tune which links you wish to
follow (*note Following Links::).
- * The progress of individual downloads is traced using a progress
+ • The progress of individual downloads is traced using a progress
gauge. Interactive downloads are tracked using a
- "thermometer"-style gauge, whereas non-interactive ones are traced
+ “thermometer”-style gauge, whereas non-interactive ones are traced
with dots, each dot representing a fixed amount of data received
(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
+ • 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
+ • 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
+ Foundation (see the file ‘COPYING’ that came with GNU Wget, for
details).

@@ -129,14 +131,14 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Invoking, Next: Recursive Download, Prev: Overview, U
By default, Wget is very simple to invoke. The basic syntax is:
- wget [OPTION]... [URL]...
+ wget [OPTION]… [URL]…
Wget will simply download all the URLs specified on the command line.
-URL is a "Uniform Resource Locator", as defined below.
+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:
@@ -160,7 +162,7 @@ File: wget.info, Node: URL Format, Next: Option Syntax, Prev: Invoking, Up:
2.1 URL Format
==============
-"URL" is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. A uniform resource
+“URL” is an acronym for Uniform Resource Locator. A uniform resource
locator is a compact string representation for a resource available via
the Internet. Wget recognizes the URL syntax as per RFC1738. This is
the most widely used form (square brackets denote optional parts):
@@ -175,25 +177,25 @@ 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'.
-
- 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
+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
+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.
- 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")
+ 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:
@@ -202,10 +204,10 @@ systems, and is thus useful for text files. Here is an example:
Two alternative variants of URL specification are also supported,
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
@@ -213,11 +215,11 @@ 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
+ (1) If you have a ‘.netrc’ file in your home directory, password will
also be searched for there.

@@ -235,7 +237,7 @@ 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:
@@ -247,40 +249,40 @@ 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
+ 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
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-'
-prefix. This might seem superfluous--if the default for an affirmative
+ 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
+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.

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2.3 Basic Startup Options
=========================
-'-V'
-'--version'
+‘-V’
+‘--version’
Display the version of Wget.
-'-h'
-'--help'
- Print a help message describing all of Wget's command-line options.
+‘-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’.

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2.4 Logging and Input File Options
==================================
-'-o LOGFILE'
-'--output-file=LOGFILE'
+‘-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
+ 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.
+ ‘-d’. *Note Reporting Bugs::, for more information on how to use
+ ‘-d’ for sending bug reports.
-'-q'
-'--quiet'
- Turn off Wget's output.
+‘-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.
-'--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'.
- Furthermore, the FILE's location will be implicitly used as base
+ 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'
+‘--input-metalink=FILE’
+ Downloads files covered in local Metalink FILE. Metalink version 3
+ and 4 are supported.
+
+‘--metalink-over-http’
+ Issues HTTP HEAD request instead of GET and extracts Metalink
+ metadata from response headers. Then it switches to Metalink
+ download. If no valid Metalink metadata is found, it falls back to
+ ordinary HTTP download.
+
+‘--preferred-location’
+ Set preferred location for Metalink resources. This has effect if
+ multiple resources with same priority are available.
+
+‘-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.
+‘--rejected-log=LOGFILE’
+ Logs all URL rejections to LOGFILE as comma separated values. The
+ values include the reason of rejection, the URL and the parent URL
+ it was found in.
+

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2.5 Download Options
====================
-'--bind-address=ADDRESS'
+‘--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 tries 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
+ 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
- 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
+ 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
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
+ 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
+ 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
+ A combination with ‘-nc’ is only accepted if the given output file
+ does not exist.
+
+ 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
- multiple URIs when they're all being downloaded to a single file;
- '-k' can be used only when the output is a regular file.
+ 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.
-'-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
- certain cases, the local file will be "clobbered", or overwritten,
+ 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
- actually a misnomer in this mode--it's not clobbering that's
+ 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
+ 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
+ A combination with ‘-O’/‘--output-document’ is only accepted if the
+ given output file does not exist.
+
+ 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.
-'--backups=BACKUPS'
+‘--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
+ ‘.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'
+‘-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.
- Note that you don't need to specify this option if you just want
+ 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
+ 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.
- 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
it was changed on the server since your last download
- attempt)--because "continuing" is not meaningful, no download
+ 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
+ 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.
- 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
+ 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
- interrupted" string into the local file. In the future a
- "rollback" option may be added to deal with this case.
+ 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
+ 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.
-'--start-pos=OFFSET'
+‘--start-pos=OFFSET’
Start downloading at zero-based position OFFSET. Offset may be
- expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the 'k' suffix, or megabytes
- with the 'm' suffix, etc.
+ expressed in bytes, kilobytes with the ‘k’ suffix, or megabytes
+ with the ‘m’ suffix, etc.
- '--start-pos' has higher precedence over '--continue'. When
- '--start-pos' and '--continue' are both specified, wget will emit a
- warning then proceed as if '--continue' was absent.
+ ‘--start-pos’ has higher precedence over ‘--continue’. When
+ ‘--start-pos’ and ‘--continue’ are both specified, wget will emit a
+ warning then proceed as if ‘--continue’ was absent.
Server support for continued download is required, otherwise
- '--start-pos' cannot help. See '-c' for details.
+ ‘--start-pos’ cannot help. See ‘-c’ for details.
-'--progress=TYPE'
+‘--progress=TYPE’
Select the type of the progress indicator you wish to use. Legal
- indicators are "dot" and "bar".
+ indicators are “dot” and “bar”.
- The "bar" indicator is used by default. It draws an ASCII progress
- bar graphics (a.k.a "thermometer" display) indicating the status of
- retrieval. If the output is not a TTY, the "dot" bar will be used
+ The “bar” indicator is used by default. It draws an ASCII progress
+ bar graphics (a.k.a “thermometer” display) indicating the status of
+ 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
+ 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.
The progress TYPE can also take one or more parameters. The
parameters vary based on the TYPE selected. Parameters to TYPE are
passed by appending them to the type sperated by a colon (:) like
- this: '--progress=TYPE:PARAMETER1:PARAMETER2'.
+ this: ‘--progress=TYPE:PARAMETER1:PARAMETER2’.
- When using the dotted retrieval, you may set the "style" by
- specifying the type as 'dot:STYLE'. Different styles assign
- different meaning to one dot. With the 'default' style each dot
+ When using the dotted retrieval, you may set the “style” by
+ 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
- orientation--8K dots, 16-dots clusters and 48 dots per line (which
- 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).
-
- With '--progress=bar', there are currently two possible parameters,
+ 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 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).
+
+ With ‘--progress=bar’, there are currently two possible parameters,
FORCE and NOSCROLL.
When the output is not a TTY, the progress bar always falls back to
- "dot", even if '--progress=bar' was passed to Wget during
- invokation. This behaviour can be overridden and the "bar" output
- forced by using the "force" parameter as '--progress=bar:force'.
+ “dot”, even if ‘--progress=bar’ was passed to Wget during
+ invokation. This behaviour can be overridden and the “bar” output
+ forced by using the “force” parameter as ‘--progress=bar:force’.
- By default, the 'bar' style progress bar scroll the name of the
+ By default, the ‘bar’ style progress bar scroll the name of the
file from left to right for the file being downloaded if the
filename exceeds the maximum length allotted for its display. In
- certain cases, such as with '--progress=bar:force', one may not
+ certain cases, such as with ‘--progress=bar:force’, one may not
want the scrolling filename in the progress bar. By passing the
- "noscroll" parameter, Wget can be forced to display as much of the
+ “noscroll” parameter, Wget can be forced to display as much of the
filename as possible without scrolling through it.
- Note that you can set the default style using the 'progress'
- command in '.wgetrc'. That setting may be overridden from the
+ Note that you can set the default style using the ‘progress’
+ command in ‘.wgetrc’. That setting may be overridden from the
command line. For example, to force the bar output without
- scrolling, use '--progress=bar:force:noscroll'.
+ scrolling, use ‘--progress=bar:force:noscroll’.
-'--show-progress'
+‘--show-progress’
Force wget to display the progress bar in any verbosity.
By default, wget only displays the progress bar in verbose mode.
One may however, want wget to display the progress bar on screen in
- conjunction with any other verbosity modes like '--no-verbose' or
- '--quiet'. This is often a desired a property when invoking wget
+ conjunction with any other verbosity modes like ‘--no-verbose’ or
+ ‘--quiet’. This is often a desired a property when invoking wget
to download several small/large files. In such a case, wget could
simply be invoked with this parameter to get a much cleaner output
on the screen.
This option will also force the progress bar to be printed to
- 'stderr' when used alongside the '--logfile' option.
+ ‘stderr’ when used alongside the ‘--logfile’ option.
-'-N'
-'--timestamping'
+‘-N’
+‘--timestamping’
Turn on time-stamping. *Note Time-Stamping::, for details.
-'--no-use-server-timestamps'
- Don't set the local file's timestamp by the one on the server.
+‘--no-if-modified-since’
+ Do not send If-Modified-Since header in ‘-N’ mode. Send
+ preliminary HEAD request instead. This has only effect in ‘-N’
+ mode.
+
+‘--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, 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
+ ‘--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'
- When invoked with this option, Wget will behave as a Web "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
bookmarks:
@@ -663,11 +695,11 @@ 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
@@ -677,24 +709,24 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi
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,
+ 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
+‘--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.
@@ -703,16 +735,16 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi
sooner than this option requires. The default read timeout is 900
seconds.
-'--limit-rate=AMOUNT'
+‘--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
+ 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
+ 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
@@ -720,39 +752,39 @@ 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
+ 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.
+ 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'
- If you don't want Wget to wait between _every_ retrieval, but only
+‘--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
+ 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
time between requests to vary between 0.5 and 1.5 * WAIT seconds,
- where WAIT was specified using the '--wait' option, in order to
- mask Wget's presence from such analysis.
+ 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
@@ -760,36 +792,36 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi
ensure automated retrieval programs were blocked despite changing
DHCP-supplied addresses.
- The '--random-wait' option was inspired by this ill-advised
+ 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.
*Note Proxies::, for more information about the use of proxies with
Wget.
-'-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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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
it retrieves from. This cache exists in memory only; a new Wget
run will contact DNS again.
@@ -797,19 +829,19 @@ 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.
- If you don't understand exactly what this option does, you probably
- won't need it.
+ 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
+ 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.
@@ -823,128 +855,128 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi
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
+ 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
- control characters in the ranges 0-31 and 128-159. This is 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
+ 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
+ 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
+ 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").
+ values designated by Wget as “controls”).
- The 'ascii' mode is used to specify that any bytes whose values are
+ 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
+‘-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
+ 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
+ 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.)
+ 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.
+ 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.
-'--retry-connrefused'
- Consider "connection refused" a transient error and try again.
+‘--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.
-'--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'
+‘--ask-password’
Prompt for a password for each connection established. Cannot be
- specified when '--password' is being used, because they are
+ specified when ‘--password’ is being used, because they are
mutually exclusive.
-'--no-iri'
+‘--no-iri’
- Turn off internationalized URI (IRI) support. Use '--iri' to turn
+ 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'
+‘--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'
+ 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
@@ -952,14 +984,14 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Download Options, Next: Directory Options, Prev: Loggi
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
+ You can set the default encoding using the ‘remoteencoding’ command
+ in ‘.wgetrc’. That setting may be overridden from the command
line.
-'--unlink'
+‘--unlink’
Force Wget to unlink file instead of clobbering existing file.
This option is useful for downloading to the directory with
@@ -971,44 +1003,44 @@ 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
- http://fly.srk.fer.hr/robots.txt' will save the downloaded file to
- 'fly.srk.fer.hr/robots.txt'.
+‘-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’.
-'-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'
+‘--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/...'.
+ 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/
@@ -1019,16 +1051,16 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Directory Options, Next: HTTP Options, Prev: Download
...
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'
- Set directory prefix to PREFIX. The "directory prefix" is the
+ 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’
+ 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).

@@ -1037,31 +1069,31 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir
2.7 HTTP Options
================
-'--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'.
+‘--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’.
-'-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
+ ‘\.[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
+ 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'.
+ 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'.
+ 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
+ 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.
@@ -1069,57 +1101,57 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir
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'
+ 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
+ files either—edit the files and delete them after Wget has started
the download.
-'--no-http-keep-alive'
- Turn off the "keep-alive" feature for HTTP downloads. Normally,
+‘--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
transferred over the same TCP connection. This saves time and at
the same time reduces the load on the server.
This option is useful when, for some reason, persistent
- (keep-alive) connections don't work for you, for example due to a
+ (keep-alive) connections don’t work for you, for example due to a
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.
+ textual file in the format originally used by Netscape’s
+ ‘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
@@ -1130,19 +1162,19 @@ 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'.
+ 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’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.
You can produce a cookie file Wget can use by using the File
@@ -1152,25 +1184,25 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir
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
- alternative. If your browser supports a "cookie manager", you can
- use it to view the cookies used when accessing the site you're
+ 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
manually instruct Wget to send those cookies, bypassing the
- "official" cookie support:
+ “official” cookie support:
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'.
+ that have expired or that have no expiry time (so-called “session
+ 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
@@ -1179,32 +1211,32 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir
as far as the site is concerned.
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
+ cookies, Wget marks them with an expiry timestamp of 0. Wget’s
+ ‘--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.
+ ‘--save-cookies’ to preserve them again, you must use
+ ‘--keep-session-cookies’ again.
-'--ignore-length'
+‘--ignore-length’
Unfortunately, some HTTP servers (CGI programs, to be more precise)
- send out bogus 'Content-Length' headers, which makes Wget go wild,
+ 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
+ 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' \
@@ -1215,95 +1247,101 @@ 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
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,
+ 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
+ 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
+ ‘--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.
+ 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.
+ 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.
+ When sending a POST request using the ‘--post-file’ option, Wget
+ treats the file as a binary file and will send every character in
+ the POST request without stripping trailing newline or formfeed
+ characters. Any other control characters in the text will also be
+ sent as-is in the POST request.
+
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'
- won't work. It's not quite clear how to work around this
+ 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
+ “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.
+ – 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
@@ -1327,34 +1365,34 @@ 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.
-'--method=HTTP-METHOD'
+‘--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.
+ ‘--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'
+‘--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
+ 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
+ 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
+ ‘--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
+ 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
@@ -1362,34 +1400,34 @@ File: wget.info, Node: HTTP Options, Next: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options, Prev: Dir
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
+ Another exception is when the method is set to ‘POST’, in which
+ case the redirection rules specified under ‘--post-data’ are
followed.
-'--content-disposition'
+‘--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
+ 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.
-'--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,
@@ -1407,115 +1445,116 @@ 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.
-
-'--secure-protocol=PROTOCOL'
- Choose the secure protocol to be used. Legal values are 'auto',
- 'SSLv2', 'SSLv3', 'TLSv1', 'TLSv1_1', 'TLSv1_2' and 'PFS'. If
- 'auto' is used, the SSL library is given the liberty of choosing
+an external SSL library. The current default is GnuTLS. In addition,
+Wget also supports HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security). 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’, ‘TLSv1’, ‘TLSv1_1’, ‘TLSv1_2’ and ‘PFS’. If
+ ‘auto’ is used, the SSL library is given the liberty of choosing
the appropriate protocol automatically, which is achieved by
sending a TLSv1 greeting. This is the default.
- Specifying 'SSLv2', 'SSLv3', 'TLSv1', 'TLSv1_1' or 'TLSv1_2' forces
+ Specifying ‘SSLv2’, ‘SSLv3’, ‘TLSv1’, ‘TLSv1_1’ or ‘TLSv1_2’ forces
the use of the corresponding protocol. This is useful when talking
to old and 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
+ 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.
-'--https-only'
+‘--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
+‘--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.
- As of Wget 1.10, the default is to verify the server's certificate
+ As of Wget 1.10, the default is to verify the server’s certificate
against the recognized certificate authorities, breaking the SSL
handshake and aborting the download if the verification fails.
Although this provides more secure downloads, it does break
interoperability with some sites that worked with previous Wget
versions, particularly those using self-signed, expired, or
- otherwise invalid certificates. This option forces an "insecure"
+ otherwise invalid certificates. This option forces an “insecure”
mode of operation that turns the certificate verification errors
into warnings and allows you to proceed.
- If you encounter "certificate verification" errors or ones saying
- that "common name doesn't match requested host name", you can use
+ If you encounter “certificate verification” errors or ones saying
+ that “common name doesn’t match requested host name”, you can use
this option to bypass the verification and proceed with the
download. _Only use this option if you are otherwise convinced of
- the site's authenticity, or if you really don't care about the
+ the site’s authenticity, or if you really don’t care about the
validity of its certificate._ It is almost always a bad idea not
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
+ (“CA”) to verify the peers. The certificates must be in PEM
format.
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.
-'--crl-file=FILE'
+‘--crl-file=FILE’
Specifies a CRL file in FILE. This is needed for certificates that
have been revocated by the CAs.
-'--random-file=FILE'
+‘--random-file=FILE’
[OpenSSL and LibreSSL only] Use FILE as the source of random data
for seeding the pseudo-random number generator on systems without
- '/dev/urandom'.
+ ‘/dev/urandom’.
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'.
+ data in ‘$RANDFILE’ or, if that is unset, in ‘$HOME/.rnd’.
- If you're getting the "Could not seed OpenSSL PRNG; disabling SSL."
+ 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'
- [OpenSSL only] Use FILE as the EGD socket. EGD stands for "Entropy
- Gathering Daemon", a user-space program that collects data from
+‘--egd-file=FILE’
+ [OpenSSL only] 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 programs that might need it. Encryption software, such as
the SSL library, needs sources of non-repeating randomness to seed
@@ -1523,40 +1562,119 @@ SSL support, none of these options are available.
strong 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/urandom'.
-
-'--warc-file=FILE'
+ Unix systems that support ‘/dev/urandom’.
+
+‘--no-hsts’
+ Wget supports HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security, RFC 6797) by
+ default. Use ‘--no-hsts’ to make Wget act as a non-HSTS-compliant
+ UA. As a consequence, Wget would ignore all the
+ ‘Strict-Transport-Security’ headers, and would not enforce any
+ existing HSTS policy.
+
+‘--hsts-file=FILE’
+ By default, Wget stores its HSTS database in ‘~/.wget-hsts’. You
+ can use ‘--hsts-file’ to override this. Wget will use the supplied
+ file as the HSTS database. Such file must conform to the correct
+ HSTS database format used by Wget. If Wget cannot parse the
+ provided file, the behaviour is unspecified.
+
+ The Wget’s HSTS database is a plain text file. Each line contains
+ an HSTS entry (ie. a site that has issued a
+ ‘Strict-Transport-Security’ header and that therefore has specified
+ a concrete HSTS policy to be applied). Lines starting with a dash
+ (‘#’) are ignored by Wget. Please note that in spite of this
+ convenient human-readability hand-hacking the HSTS database is
+ generally not a good idea.
+
+ An HSTS entry line consists of several fields separated by one or
+ more whitespace:
+
+ ‘<hostname> SP [<port>] SP <include subdomains> SP <created> SP
+ <max-age>’
+
+ The HOSTNAME and PORT fields indicate the hostname and port to
+ which the given HSTS policy applies. The PORT field may be zero,
+ and it will, in most of the cases. That means that the port number
+ will not be taken into account when deciding whether such HSTS
+ policy should be applied on a given request (only the hostname will
+ be evaluated). When PORT is different to zero, both the target
+ hostname and the port will be evaluated and the HSTS policy will
+ only be applied if both of them match. This feature has been
+ included for testing/development purposes only. The Wget testsuite
+ (in ‘testenv/’) creates HSTS databases with explicit ports with the
+ purpose of ensuring Wget’s correct behaviour. Applying HSTS
+ policies to ports other than the default ones is discouraged by RFC
+ 6797 (see Appendix B "Differences between HSTS Policy and
+ Same-Origin Policy"). Thus, this functionality should not be used
+ in production environments and PORT will typically be zero. The
+ last three fields do what they are expected to. The field
+ INCLUDE_SUBDOMAINS can either be ‘1’ or ‘0’ and it signals whether
+ the subdomains of the target domain should be part of the given
+ HSTS policy as well. The CREATED and MAX-AGE fields hold the
+ timestamp values of when such entry was created (first seen by
+ Wget) and the HSTS-defined value ’max-age’, which states how long
+ should that HSTS policy remain active, measured in seconds elapsed
+ since the timestamp stored in CREATED. Once that time has passed,
+ that HSTS policy will no longer be valid and will eventually be
+ removed from the database.
+
+ If you supply your own HSTS database via ‘--hsts-file’, be aware
+ that Wget may modify the provided file if any change occurs between
+ the HSTS policies requested by the remote servers and those in the
+ file. When Wget exists, it effectively updates the HSTS database
+ by rewriting the database file with the new entries.
+
+ If the supplied file does not exist, Wget will create one. This
+ file will contain the new HSTS entries. If no HSTS entries were
+ generated (no ‘Strict-Transport-Security’ headers were sent by any
+ of the servers) then no file will be created, not even an empty
+ one. This behaviour applies to the default database file
+ (‘~/.wget-hsts’) as well: it will not be created until some server
+ enforces an HSTS policy.
+
+ Care is taken not to override possible changes made by other Wget
+ processes at the same time over the HSTS database. Before dumping
+ the updated HSTS entries on the file, Wget will re-read it and
+ merge the changes.
+
+ Using a custom HSTS database and/or modifying an existing one is
+ discouraged. For more information about the potential security
+ threats arised from such practice, see section 14 "Security
+ Considerations" of RFC 6797, specially section 14.9 "Creative
+ Manipulation of HSTS Policy Store".
+
+‘--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.
@@ -1566,48 +1684,48 @@ 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
+ 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
- verify that a mirror you're running is complete).
+ 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
- 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
+ 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
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
@@ -1619,10 +1737,10 @@ File: wget.info, Node: FTP Options, Next: Recursive Retrieval Options, Prev:
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).
+ Unix FTP servers (and the ones emulating Unix ‘ls’ output).
-'--no-passive-ftp'
- Disable the use of the "passive" FTP transfer mode. 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.
@@ -1630,21 +1748,21 @@ File: wget.info, Node: FTP Options, Next: Recursive Retrieval Options, Prev:
and active FTP should work equally well. Behind most firewall and
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.
+ 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.
-'--preserve-permissions'
+‘--preserve-permissions’
Preserve remote file permissions instead of permissions set by
umask.
-'--retr-symlinks'
+‘--retr-symlinks’
By default, when retrieving FTP directories recursively and a
symbolic link is encountered, the symbolic link is traversed and
the pointed-to files are retrieved. Currently, Wget does not
traverse symbolic links to directories to download them
recursively, though this feature may be added in the future.
- When '--retr-symlinks=no' is specified, the linked-to file is not
+ When ‘--retr-symlinks=no’ is specified, 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 retrieved unless
this recursive retrieval would have encountered it separately and
@@ -1657,40 +1775,81 @@ File: wget.info, Node: FTP Options, Next: Recursive Retrieval Options, Prev:
to, this option has no effect. Symbolic links are always traversed
in this case.
+2.10 FTPS Options
+=================
+
+‘--ftps-implicit’
+ This option tells Wget to use FTPS implicitly. Implicit FTPS
+ consists of initializing SSL/TLS from the very beginning of the
+ control connection. This option does not send an ‘AUTH TLS’
+ command: it assumes the server speaks FTPS and directly starts an
+ SSL/TLS connection. If the attempt is successful, the session
+ continues just like regular FTPS (‘PBSZ’ and ‘PROT’ are sent,
+ etc.). Implicit FTPS is no longer a requirement for FTPS
+ implementations, and thus many servers may not support it. If
+ ‘--ftps-implicit’ is passed and no explicit port number specified,
+ the default port for implicit FTPS, 990, will be used, instead of
+ the default port for the "normal" (explicit) FTPS which is the same
+ as that of FTP, 21.
+
+‘--no-ftps-resume-ssl’
+ Do not resume the SSL/TLS session in the data channel. When
+ starting a data connection, Wget tries to resume the SSL/TLS
+ session previously started in the control connection. SSL/TLS
+ session resumption avoids performing an entirely new handshake by
+ reusing the SSL/TLS parameters of a previous session. Typically,
+ the FTPS servers want it that way, so Wget does this by default.
+ Under rare circumstances however, one might want to start an
+ entirely new SSL/TLS session in every data connection. This is
+ what ‘--no-ftps-resume-ssl’ is for.
+
+‘--ftps-clear-data-connection’
+ All the data connections will be in plain text. Only the control
+ connection will be under SSL/TLS. Wget will send a ‘PROT C’ command
+ to achieve this, which must be approved by the server.
+
+‘--ftps-fallback-to-ftp’
+ Fall back to FTP if FTPS is not supported by the target server.
+ For security reasons, this option is not asserted by default. The
+ default behaviour is to exit with an error. If a server does not
+ successfully reply to the initial ‘AUTH TLS’ command, or in the
+ case of implicit FTPS, if the initial SSL/TLS connection attempt is
+ rejected, it is considered that such server does not support FTPS.
+

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-2.10 Recursive Retrieval Options
+2.11 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
+ 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
@@ -1699,23 +1858,23 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Retrieval Options, Next: Recursive Accept/Rej
Each link will be changed in one of the two ways:
- * The links to files that have been downloaded by Wget will be
+ • 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.
- * The links to files that have not been downloaded by Wget will
+ • The links to files that have not been downloaded by Wget will
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
@@ -1725,115 +1884,134 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Retrieval Options, Next: Recursive Accept/Rej
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
+ 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
+‘--convert-file-only’
+ This option converts only the filename part of the URLs, leaving
+ the rest of the URLs untouched. This filename part is sometimes
+ referred to as the "basename", although we avoid that term here in
+ order not to cause confusion.
+
+ It works particularly well in conjunction with
+ ‘--adjust-extension’, although this coupling is not enforced. It
+ proves useful to populate Internet caches with files downloaded
+ from different hosts.
+
+ Example: if some link points to ‘//foo.com/bar.cgi?xyz’ with
+ ‘--adjust-extension’ asserted and its local destination is intended
+ to be ‘./foo.com/bar.cgi?xyz.css’, then the link would be converted
+ to ‘//foo.com/bar.cgi?xyz.css’. Note that only the filename part
+ has been modified. The rest of the URL has been left untouched,
+ including the net path (‘//’) which would otherwise be processed by
+ Wget and converted to the effective scheme (ie. ‘http://’).
+
+‘-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
+ 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
+ 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,
+ 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':
+ 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
+ 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':
+ ‘-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
- REL="stylesheet">'.
+ 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
+ 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
- "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.
-
- 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 '<!------------>'
+ “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
+ “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.
+
+ 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 ‘<!------------>’
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 '-->'.
+ 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.
@@ -1841,50 +2019,50 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Retrieval Options, Next: Recursive Accept/Rej

File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Accept/Reject Options, Next: Exit Status, Prev: Recursive Retrieval Options, Up: Invoking
-2.11 Recursive Accept/Reject Options
+2.12 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
+ wildcard characters, ‘*’, ‘?’, ‘[’ or ‘]’, appear in an element of
ACCLIST or 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 '-A "*.mp3"' or
- '-A '*.mp3''.
+ to prevent your shell from expanding it, like in ‘-A "*.mp3"’ or
+ ‘-A '*.mp3'’.
-'--accept-regex URLREGEX'
-'--reject-regex URLREGEX'
+‘--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
+‘--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'
+‘-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.
@@ -1894,45 +2072,45 @@ 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
+ 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.
+ 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. The quotes in the example are
+ 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'
+‘-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.
@@ -1941,7 +2119,7 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Accept/Reject Options, Next: Exit Status, Pr

File: wget.info, Node: Exit Status, Prev: Recursive Accept/Reject Options, Up: Invoking
-2.12 Exit Status
+2.13 Exit Status
================
Wget may return one of several error codes if it encounters problems.
@@ -1953,8 +2131,8 @@ Wget may return one of several error codes if it encounters problems.
Generic error code.
2
- Parse error--for instance, when parsing command-line options, the
- '.wgetrc' or '.netrc'...
+ Parse error—for instance, when parsing command-line options, the
+ ‘.wgetrc’ or ‘.netrc’...
3
File I/O error.
@@ -1978,7 +2156,7 @@ Wget may return one of several error codes if it encounters problems.
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
+ In versions of Wget prior to 1.12, Wget’s exit status tended to be
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
@@ -1992,28 +2170,28 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Recursive Download, Next: Following Links, Prev: Invok
GNU Wget is capable of traversing parts of the Web (or a single HTTP or
FTP server), following links and directory structure. We refer to this
-as to "recursive retrieval", or "recursion".
+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".
+ Recursive retrieval of HTTP and HTML/CSS content is “breadth-first”.
This means that Wget first downloads the requested document, then the
documents linked from that document, then the documents linked by them,
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.
+ The maximum “depth” to which the retrieval may descend is specified
+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
@@ -2028,7 +2206,7 @@ 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.
@@ -2039,13 +2217,13 @@ 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
+ Recursive retrieval should be used with care. Don’t say you were not
warned.

@@ -2059,7 +2237,7 @@ 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
@@ -2079,47 +2257,47 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Spanning Hosts, Next: Types of Files, Prev: Following
4.1 Spanning Hosts
==================
-Wget's recursive retrieval normally refuses to visit hosts different
+Wget’s recursive retrieval normally refuses to visit hosts different
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
+ 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
+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'
+Span to any host—‘-H’
- The '-H' option turns on host spanning, thus allowing Wget's
+ 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'
+Limit spanning to certain domains—‘-D’
- The '-D' option allows you to specify the domains that will be
+ 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',
+ 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 \
@@ -2138,87 +2316,87 @@ 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]*'.
-
- 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
+ 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]*’.
+
+ 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'.
+ 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
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
+ 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,
+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
+ • 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
+ • 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
@@ -2232,69 +2410,69 @@ 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
+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 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
+‘-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.
+ 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
+ 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'.
+ 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
- "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 '/').
+ 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 ‘/’).

File: wget.info, Node: Relative Links, Next: FTP Links, Prev: Directory-Based Limits, Up: Following Links
@@ -2302,7 +2480,7 @@ 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:
@@ -2317,8 +2495,8 @@ 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
-"just work" without having to convert links.
+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
future release.
@@ -2334,11 +2512,11 @@ 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
@@ -2359,7 +2537,7 @@ and the time to do the update. This is why all the mirroring tools
offer the option of incremental updating.
Such an updating mechanism means that the remote server is scanned in
-search of "new" files. Only those new files will be downloaded in the
+search of “new” files. Only those new files will be downloaded in the
place of the old ones.
A file is considered new if one of these two conditions are met:
@@ -2371,10 +2549,10 @@ place of the old ones.
To implement this, the program needs to be aware of the time of last
modification of both local and remote files. We call this information
-the "time-stamp" of a file.
+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.
@@ -2400,10 +2578,10 @@ 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.
@@ -2420,11 +2598,11 @@ 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
+‘-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
@@ -2433,7 +2611,7 @@ 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'
+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::).
@@ -2443,31 +2621,31 @@ 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'
+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
-modified more recently (which makes it "newer"). If the remote file is
+ 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'
+ (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.
@@ -2478,16 +2656,16 @@ File: wget.info, Node: FTP Time-Stamping Internals, Prev: HTTP Time-Stamping I
===============================
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.
+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
@@ -2496,8 +2674,8 @@ 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.
- Another non-standard solution includes the use of 'MDTM' command that
-is supported by some FTP servers (including the popular 'wu-ftpd'),
+ 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.
@@ -2510,14 +2688,14 @@ 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
+ 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 '$HOME/.netrc', if it finds it. You can find
-'.netrc' format in your system manuals.
+interprets the contents of ‘$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:
@@ -2533,20 +2711,20 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Wgetrc Location, Next: Wgetrc Syntax, Prev: Startup Fi
6.1 Wgetrc Location
===================
-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
+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
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
+ 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
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
+ 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
admins, away!

@@ -2559,17 +2737,17 @@ The syntax of a wgetrc command is simple:
variable = value
- The "variable" will also be called "command". Valid "values" are
+ The “variable” will also be called “command”. Valid “values” are
different for different commands.
The commands are case-, underscore- and minus-insensitive. Thus
-'DIr__PrefiX', 'DIr-PrefiX' and 'dirprefix' are the same. Empty lines,
-lines beginning with '#' and lines containing white-space only are
+‘DIr__PrefiX’, ‘DIr-PrefiX’ and ‘dirprefix’ are the same. 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 =
@@ -2580,87 +2758,87 @@ 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'.
+ 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'.
+ See ‘--auth-no-challenge’.
background = on/off
- Enable/disable going to background--the same as '-b' (which enables
+ 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'.
+ 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'.
+ against the specified client authorities. The default is “on”.
+ 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
@@ -2668,51 +2846,51 @@ 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
+ 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
+ to suit your needs, or you can use the predefined “styles” (*note
Download Options::).
dot_spacing = N
@@ -2724,33 +2902,33 @@ 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
@@ -2759,33 +2937,33 @@ 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_only = on/off
When in recursive mode, only HTTPS links are followed (defaults to
@@ -2797,264 +2975,264 @@ 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
+ 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'.
+ 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'.
+ ‘--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.
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.
+ 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'.
+ 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
+ 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'.
+ ‘--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.)
+ 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'.
+ When set to on, consider “connection refused” a transient 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
+ 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
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
+ 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 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 identification sent to the HTTP Server—the same as
+ ‘--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
@@ -3063,12 +3241,12 @@ 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 '$HOME/.wgetrc').
+It is divided in two section—one for global usage (suitable for global
+startup file), and one for local usage (suitable for ‘$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.
###
@@ -3230,11 +3408,11 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Simple Usage, Next: Advanced Usage, Prev: Examples, U
7.1 Simple Usage
================
- * Say you want to download a URL. Just type:
+ • Say you want to download a URL. Just type:
wget http://fly.srk.fer.hr/
- * But what will happen if the connection is slow, and the file is
+ • But what will happen if the connection is slow, and the file is
lengthy? The connection will probably fail before the whole file
is retrieved, more than once. In this case, Wget will try getting
the file until it either gets the whole of it, or exceeds the
@@ -3244,21 +3422,21 @@ 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'.
+ • 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’.
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
+ • The usage of FTP is as simple. Wget will take care of login and
password.
wget ftp://gnjilux.srk.fer.hr/welcome.msg
- * If you specify a directory, Wget will retrieve the directory
+ • If you specify a directory, Wget will retrieve the directory
listing, parse it and convert it to HTML. Try:
wget ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/
@@ -3270,90 +3448,90 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Advanced Usage, Next: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Simpl
7.2 Advanced Usage
==================
- * You have a file that contains the URLs you want to download? Use
- the '-i' switch:
+ • You have a file that contains the URLs you want to download? Use
+ 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
+ • 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
- * The same as the above, but convert the links in the downloaded
+ • The same as the above, but convert the links in the downloaded
files to point to local files, so you can view the documents
off-line:
wget --convert-links -r http://www.gnu.org/ -o gnulog
- * Retrieve only one HTML page, but make sure that all the elements
+ • Retrieve only one HTML page, but make sure that all the elements
needed for the page to be displayed, such as inline images and
external style sheets, are also downloaded. Also make sure the
downloaded page references the downloaded links.
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.
- In fact, I don't want to have all those random server directories
- anyway--just save _all_ those files under a 'download/'
- subdirectory of the current 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/’ 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/
- * Save the server headers with the file, perhaps for post-processing.
+ • Save the server headers with the file, perhaps for post-processing.
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
- didn't work because HTTP retrieval does not support globbing. In
+ • 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
+ 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
+ • Suppose you were in the middle of downloading, when Wget was
interrupted. Now you do not want to clobber the files already
present. It would be:
wget -nc -r http://www.gnu.org/
- * If you want to encode your own username and password to HTTP or
+ • If you want to encode your own username and password to HTTP or
FTP, use the appropriate URL syntax (*note URL Format::).
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'.
+ output of ‘ps’.
- * You would like the output documents to go to standard output
+ • 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/
@@ -3369,28 +3547,28 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Very Advanced Usage, Prev: Advanced Usage, Up: Example
7.3 Very Advanced Usage
=======================
- * 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
+ • 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
recheck a site each Sunday:
crontab
0 0 * * 0 wget --mirror http://www.gnu.org/ -o /home/me/weeklog
- * In addition to the above, you want the links to be converted for
+ • 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
+ 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:
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'.
+ • 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’.
wget --mirror --convert-links --backup-converted \
--html-extension -o /home/me/weeklog \
@@ -3412,9 +3590,9 @@ This chapter contains all the stuff that could not fit anywhere else.
* Proxies:: Support for proxy servers.
* Distribution:: Getting the latest version.
-* Web Site:: GNU Wget's presence on the World Wide Web.
+* Web Site:: GNU Wget’s presence on the World Wide Web.
* Mailing Lists:: Wget mailing list for announcements and discussion.
-* Internet Relay Chat:: Wget's presence on IRC.
+* Internet Relay Chat:: Wget’s presence on IRC.
* Reporting Bugs:: How and where to report bugs.
* Portability:: The systems Wget works on.
* Signals:: Signal-handling performed by Wget.
@@ -3425,7 +3603,7 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Proxies, Next: Distribution, Prev: Various, Up: Vario
8.1 Proxies
===========
-"Proxies" are special-purpose HTTP servers designed to transfer data
+“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
@@ -3439,55 +3617,55 @@ their users connect and retrieve remote data using an authorized proxy.
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
+‘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.
-'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
+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
+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
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
@@ -3497,8 +3675,7 @@ 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
-1.16.3 can be found at
-<ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.16.3.tar.gz>
+1.17 can be found at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/wget-1.17.tar.gz>

File: wget.info, Node: Web Site, Next: Mailing Lists, Prev: Distribution, Up: Various
@@ -3508,7 +3685,7 @@ 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/>.
+resides at “The Wget Wgiki”, <http://wget.addictivecode.org/>.

File: wget.info, Node: Mailing Lists, Next: Internet Relay Chat, Prev: Web Site, Up: Various
@@ -3526,8 +3703,8 @@ GNU Wget is at <bug-wget@gnu.org>. To subscribe, send an email to
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
+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/>.
@@ -3569,7 +3746,7 @@ 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
@@ -3584,43 +3761,43 @@ You are welcome to submit bug reports via the GNU Wget bug tracker (see
simple guidelines.
1. Please try to ascertain that the behavior you see really is a bug.
- If Wget crashes, it's a bug. If Wget does not behave as
- documented, it's a bug. If things work strange, but you are not
+ If Wget crashes, it’s a bug. If Wget does not behave as
+ documented, it’s a bug. If things work strange, but you are not
sure about the way they are supposed to work, it might well be a
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
+ 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
+ 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, 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
+ 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.
- 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.
@@ -3632,7 +3809,7 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Portability, Next: Signals, Prev: Reporting Bugs, Up:
Like all GNU software, Wget works on the GNU system. However, since it
uses GNU Autoconf for building and configuring, and mostly avoids using
-"special" features of any particular Unix, it should compile (and work)
+“special” features of any particular Unix, it should compile (and work)
on all common Unix flavors.
Various Wget versions have been compiled and tested under many kinds
@@ -3664,8 +3841,8 @@ 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'
+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.
@@ -3675,7 +3852,7 @@ 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
@@ -3687,7 +3864,7 @@ This chapter contains some references I consider useful.
* Menu:
-* Robot Exclusion:: Wget's support for RES.
+* Robot Exclusion:: Wget’s support for RES.
* Security Considerations:: Security with Wget.
* Contributors:: People who helped.
@@ -3698,53 +3875,53 @@ 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
-problem. The trouble is that Wget can't tell the difference between the
+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
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
+viewing an occasional Info file. However, when someone’s recursive Wget
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
-concept of "robot exclusion" was invented. The idea is that the server
+concept of “robot exclusion” was invented. The idea is that the server
administrators and document authors can specify which portions of the
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
+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
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,
-it can download large parts of the site without the user's intervention
+it can download large parts of the site without the user’s intervention
to download an individual page. Because of that, Wget honors RES when
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
has supported the additional directives specified in the internet draft
-'<draft-koster-robots-00.txt>' titled "A Method for Web Robots Control".
+‘<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>.
@@ -3753,18 +3930,18 @@ 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.
+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
@@ -3776,19 +3953,19 @@ 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
+ 2. Using the insecure “basic” authentication scheme, unencrypted
passwords are transmitted through the network routers and gateways.
3. The FTP passwords are also in no way encrypted. There is no good
solution for this at the moment.
- 4. Although the "normal" output of Wget tries to hide the passwords,
+ 4. Although the “normal” output of Wget tries to hide the passwords,
debugging logs show them, in all forms. This problem is avoided by
being careful when you send debug logs (yes, even when you send
them to me).
@@ -3799,81 +3976,81 @@ File: wget.info, Node: Contributors, Prev: Security Considerations, Up: Appen
9.3 Contributors
================
-GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
+GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@xemacs.org>,
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!".
+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
+ • Dan Harkless—contributed a lot of code and documentation of
+ 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.
- * Ian Abbott--contributed bug fixes, Windows-related fixes, and
+ • Ian Abbott—contributed bug fixes, Windows-related fixes, and
provided a prototype implementation of the breadth-first recursive
download. Co-maintained Wget during the 1.8 release cycle.
- * The dotsrc.org crew, in particular Karsten Thygesen--donated system
+ • The dotsrc.org crew, in particular Karsten Thygesen—donated system
resources such as the mailing list, web space, FTP space, and
version control repositories, along with a lot of time to make
these actually work. Christian Reiniger was of invaluable help
with setting up Subversion.
- * Heiko Herold--provided high-quality Windows builds and contributed
+ • Heiko Herold—provided high-quality Windows builds and contributed
bug and build reports for many years.
- * Shawn McHorse--bug reports and patches.
+ • Shawn McHorse—bug reports and patches.
- * Kaveh R. Ghazi--on-the-fly 'ansi2knr'-ization. Lots of portability
+ • 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.
+ • Zlatko Čalušić, Tomislav Vujec and Dražen Kačar—feature suggestions
+ and “philosophical” discussions.
- * Darko Budor--initial port to Windows.
+ • Darko Budor—initial port to Windows.
- * Antonio Rosella--help and suggestions, plus the initial Italian
+ • Antonio Rosella—help and suggestions, plus the initial Italian
translation.
- * Tomislav Petrovic, Mario Mikocevic--many bug reports and
+ • Tomislav Petrović, Mario Mikočević—many bug reports and
suggestions.
- * Francois Pinard--many thorough bug reports and discussions.
+ • François Pinard—many thorough bug reports and discussions.
- * Karl Eichwalder--lots of help with internationalization, Makefile
+ • 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
+ • Mauro Tortonesi—improved IPv6 support, adding support for dual
family systems. Refactored and enhanced FTP IPv6 code. Maintained
- GNU Wget from 2004-2007.
+ GNU Wget from 2004–2007.
- * Christopher G. Lewis--maintenance of the Windows version of GNU
+ • Christopher G. Lewis—maintenance of the Windows version of GNU
WGet.
- * Gisle Vanem--many helpful patches and improvements, especially for
+ • Gisle Vanem—many helpful patches and improvements, especially for
Windows and MS-DOS support.
- * Ralf Wildenhues--contributed patches to convert Wget to use
- Automake as part of its build process, and various bugfixes.
+ • Ralf Wildenhues—contributed patches to convert Wget to use Automake
+ as part of its build process, and various bugfixes.
- * Steven Schubiger--Many helpful patches, bugfixes and improvements.
+ • Steven Schubiger—Many helpful patches, bugfixes and improvements.
Notably, conversion of Wget to use the Gnulib quotes and quoteargs
modules, and the addition of password prompts at the console, via
the Gnulib getpasswd-gnu module.
- * Ted Mielczarek--donated support for CSS.
+ • Ted Mielczarek—donated support for CSS.
- * Saint Xavier--Support for IRIs (RFC 3987).
+ • Saint Xavier—Support for IRIs (RFC 3987).
- * People who provided donations for development--including Brian
+ • People who provided donations for development—including Brian
Gough.
The following people have provided patches, bug/build reports, useful
@@ -3883,36 +4060,36 @@ 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
+Charron, Noel Cragg, Kristijan Čonkaš, 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,
+Deryabin, Ulrich Drepper, Marc Duponcheel, Damir Džeko, Alan Eldridge,
+Hans-Andreas Engel, Aleksandar Erkalović, Andy Eskilsson, João 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,
+Jonas Jensen, Larry Jones, Simon Josefsson, Mario Jurić, Hack Kampbjørn,
+Const Kaplinsky, Goran Kezunović, 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,
+Krank, Jay Krell, Σίμος Ξενιτέλλης (Simos KSenitellis), Christian
+Lackas, Hrvoje Lacko, Daniel S. Lewart, Nicolás 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 Přikryl, Marin Purgar,
+Csaba Ráduly, Keith Refson, Bill Richardson, Tyler Riddle, Tobias
+Ringstrom, Jochen Roderburg, Juan José Rodríguez, 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,
+Turner, Gisle Vanem, Rabin Vincent, Russell Vincent, Željko Vrba,
Charles G Waldman, Douglas E. Wegscheid, Ralf Wildenhues, Joshua David
Williams, Benjamin Wolsey, Saint Xavier, YAMAZAKI Makoto, Jasmin Zainul,
-Bojan Zdrnja, Kristijan Zimmer, Xin Zou.
+Bojan Ždrnja, Kristijan Zimmer, Xin Zou.
Apologies to all who I accidentally left out, and many thanks to all
the subscribers of the Wget mailing list.
@@ -3935,7 +4112,8 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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+ Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2002, 2007, 2008, 2015 Free Software
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@@ -3944,14 +4122,14 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -3972,18 +4150,18 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -3992,7 +4170,7 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4000,13 +4178,13 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4018,7 +4196,7 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4031,23 +4209,23 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4077,7 +4255,7 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4149,15 +4327,15 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4167,12 +4345,12 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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that was published at least four years before the Document
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to gives permission.
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+ K. For any section Entitled “Acknowledgements” or “Dedications”,
Preserve the Title of the section, and preserve in the section
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@@ -4181,11 +4359,11 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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Section.
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@@ -4194,15 +4372,15 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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license notice. These titles must be distinct from any other
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nothing but endorsements of your Modified Version by various
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+ a standard.
You may add a passage of up to five words as a Front-Cover Text,
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@@ -4240,10 +4418,10 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4264,16 +4442,16 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4295,8 +4473,8 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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Preserve its Title (section 1) will typically require changing the
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@@ -4337,7 +4515,7 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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@@ -4345,29 +4523,29 @@ A.1 GNU Free Documentation License
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- A "Massive Multiauthor Collaboration" (or "MMC") contained in the
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site means any set of copyrightable works thus published on the MMC
site.
- "CC-BY-SA" means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
+ “CC-BY-SA” means the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0
license published by Creative Commons Corporation, a not-for-profit
corporation with a principal place of business in San Francisco,
California, as well as future copyleft versions of that license
published by that same organization.
- "Incorporate" means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
+ “Incorporate” means to publish or republish a Document, in whole or
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@@ -4394,7 +4572,7 @@ notices just after the title page:
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If you have Invariant Sections, Front-Cover Texts and Back-Cover
-Texts, replace the "with...Texts." line with this:
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with the Invariant Sections being LIST THEIR TITLES, with
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@@ -4431,33 +4609,33 @@ Concept Index
* append to log: Logging and Input File Options.
(line 11)
* arguments: Invoking. (line 6)
-* authentication: Download Options. (line 506)
+* authentication: Download Options. (line 517)
* authentication <1>: HTTP Options. (line 38)
-* authentication <2>: HTTP Options. (line 358)
+* authentication <2>: HTTP Options. (line 364)
* backing up converted files: Recursive Retrieval Options.
- (line 71)
-* backing up files: Download Options. (line 86)
-* bandwidth, limit: Download Options. (line 301)
+ (line 90)
+* backing up files: Download Options. (line 92)
+* bandwidth, limit: Download Options. (line 312)
* base for relative links in input file: Logging and Input File Options.
- (line 76)
+ (line 90)
* bind address: Download Options. (line 6)
* bug reports: Reporting Bugs. (line 6)
* bugs: Reporting Bugs. (line 6)
* cache: HTTP Options. (line 66)
-* caching of DNS lookups: Download Options. (line 385)
+* caching of DNS lookups: Download Options. (line 396)
* case fold: Recursive Accept/Reject Options.
(line 62)
* client IP address: Download Options. (line 6)
-* clobbering, file: Download Options. (line 50)
+* clobbering, file: Download Options. (line 53)
* command line: Invoking. (line 6)
* comments, HTML: Recursive Retrieval Options.
- (line 149)
-* connect timeout: Download Options. (line 285)
-* Content On Error: HTTP Options. (line 347)
-* Content-Disposition: HTTP Options. (line 335)
+ (line 168)
+* connect timeout: Download Options. (line 296)
+* Content On Error: HTTP Options. (line 353)
+* Content-Disposition: HTTP Options. (line 341)
* Content-Length, ignore: HTTP Options. (line 155)
-* continue retrieval: Download Options. (line 92)
-* continue retrieval <1>: Download Options. (line 153)
+* continue retrieval: Download Options. (line 98)
+* continue retrieval <1>: Download Options. (line 159)
* contributors: Contributors. (line 6)
* conversion of links: Recursive Retrieval Options.
(line 32)
@@ -4480,14 +4658,14 @@ Concept Index
* directory limits: Directory-Based Limits.
(line 6)
* directory prefix: Directory Options. (line 59)
-* DNS cache: Download Options. (line 385)
-* DNS timeout: Download Options. (line 279)
-* dot style: Download Options. (line 165)
-* downloading multiple times: Download Options. (line 50)
+* DNS cache: Download Options. (line 396)
+* DNS timeout: Download Options. (line 290)
+* dot style: Download Options. (line 171)
+* downloading multiple times: Download Options. (line 53)
* EGD: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 113)
+ (line 114)
* entropy, specifying source of: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 98)
+ (line 99)
* examples: Examples. (line 6)
* exclude directories: Directory-Based Limits.
(line 30)
@@ -4496,7 +4674,7 @@ Concept Index
* FDL, GNU Free Documentation License: GNU Free Documentation License.
(line 6)
* features: Overview. (line 6)
-* file names, restrict: Download Options. (line 404)
+* file names, restrict: Download Options. (line 415)
* file permissions: FTP Options. (line 73)
* filling proxy cache: Recursive Retrieval Options.
(line 16)
@@ -4505,7 +4683,7 @@ Concept Index
* following ftp links: FTP Links. (line 6)
* following links: Following Links. (line 6)
* force html: Logging and Input File Options.
- (line 69)
+ (line 83)
* ftp authentication: FTP Options. (line 6)
* ftp password: FTP Options. (line 6)
* ftp time-stamping: FTP Time-Stamping Internals.
@@ -4515,68 +4693,76 @@ Concept Index
* hangup: Signals. (line 6)
* header, add: HTTP Options. (line 166)
* hosts, spanning: Spanning Hosts. (line 6)
+* HSTS: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
+ (line 133)
* HTML comments: Recursive Retrieval Options.
- (line 149)
+ (line 168)
* 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 38)
-* idn support: Download Options. (line 519)
+* idn support: Download Options. (line 530)
* ignore case: Recursive Accept/Reject Options.
(line 62)
* ignore length: HTTP Options. (line 155)
* include directories: Directory-Based Limits.
(line 17)
-* incomplete downloads: Download Options. (line 92)
-* incomplete downloads <1>: Download Options. (line 153)
+* incomplete downloads: Download Options. (line 98)
+* incomplete downloads <1>: Download Options. (line 159)
* incremental updating: Time-Stamping. (line 6)
* index.html: HTTP Options. (line 6)
* input-file: Logging and Input File Options.
(line 46)
+* input-metalink: Logging and Input File Options.
+ (line 69)
* Internet Relay Chat: Internet Relay Chat. (line 6)
* invoking: Invoking. (line 6)
* IP address, client: Download Options. (line 6)
-* IPv6: Download Options. (line 454)
+* IPv6: Download Options. (line 465)
* IRC: Internet Relay Chat. (line 6)
-* iri support: Download Options. (line 519)
+* iri support: Download Options. (line 530)
* Keep-Alive, turning off: HTTP Options. (line 54)
* latest version: Distribution. (line 6)
-* limit bandwidth: Download Options. (line 301)
+* limit bandwidth: Download Options. (line 312)
* link conversion: Recursive Retrieval Options.
(line 32)
* links: Following Links. (line 6)
* list: Mailing Lists. (line 5)
* loading cookies: HTTP Options. (line 85)
-* local encoding: Download Options. (line 528)
+* local encoding: Download Options. (line 539)
* location of wgetrc: Wgetrc Location. (line 6)
* log file: Logging and Input File Options.
(line 6)
* mailing list: Mailing Lists. (line 6)
+* metalink-over-http: Logging and Input File Options.
+ (line 73)
* mirroring: Very Advanced Usage. (line 6)
* no parent: Directory-Based Limits.
(line 43)
-* no-clobber: Download Options. (line 50)
+* no-clobber: Download Options. (line 53)
* nohup: Invoking. (line 6)
* number of tries: Download Options. (line 11)
-* offset: Download Options. (line 153)
+* offset: Download Options. (line 159)
* operating systems: Portability. (line 6)
* option syntax: Option Syntax. (line 6)
-* Other HTTP Methods: HTTP Options. (line 302)
+* Other HTTP Methods: HTTP Options. (line 308)
* output file: Logging and Input File Options.
(line 6)
* overview: Overview. (line 6)
* page requisites: Recursive Retrieval Options.
- (line 84)
+ (line 103)
* passive ftp: FTP Options. (line 61)
-* password: Download Options. (line 506)
-* pause: Download Options. (line 321)
+* password: Download Options. (line 517)
+* pause: Download Options. (line 332)
* Persistent Connections, disabling: HTTP Options. (line 54)
* portability: Portability. (line 6)
* POST: HTTP Options. (line 240)
-* progress indicator: Download Options. (line 165)
+* preferred-location: Logging and Input File Options.
+ (line 79)
+* progress indicator: Download Options. (line 171)
* proxies: Proxies. (line 6)
-* proxy: Download Options. (line 362)
+* proxy: Download Options. (line 373)
* proxy <1>: HTTP Options. (line 66)
* proxy authentication: HTTP Options. (line 198)
* proxy filling: Recursive Retrieval Options.
@@ -4585,12 +4771,12 @@ Concept Index
* proxy user: HTTP Options. (line 198)
* quiet: Logging and Input File Options.
(line 28)
-* quota: Download Options. (line 369)
-* random wait: Download Options. (line 344)
+* quota: Download Options. (line 380)
+* random wait: Download Options. (line 355)
* randomness, specifying source of: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 98)
-* rate, limit: Download Options. (line 301)
-* read timeout: Download Options. (line 290)
+ (line 99)
+* rate, limit: Download Options. (line 312)
+* read timeout: Download Options. (line 301)
* recursion: Recursive Download. (line 6)
* recursive download: Recursive Download. (line 6)
* redirect: HTTP Options. (line 192)
@@ -4601,14 +4787,14 @@ Concept Index
* 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 542)
+* remote encoding: Download Options. (line 553)
* reporting bugs: Reporting Bugs. (line 6)
* required images, downloading: Recursive Retrieval Options.
- (line 84)
-* resume download: Download Options. (line 92)
-* resume download <1>: Download Options. (line 153)
+ (line 103)
+* resume download: Download Options. (line 98)
+* resume download <1>: Download Options. (line 159)
* retries: Download Options. (line 11)
-* retries, waiting between: Download Options. (line 335)
+* retries, waiting between: Download Options. (line 346)
* retrieving: Recursive Download. (line 6)
* robot exclusion: Robot Exclusion. (line 6)
* robots.txt: Robot Exclusion. (line 6)
@@ -4617,29 +4803,29 @@ Concept Index
* security: Security Considerations.
(line 6)
* server maintenance: Robot Exclusion. (line 6)
-* server response, print: Download Options. (line 245)
+* server response, print: Download Options. (line 256)
* 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 89)
-* spider: Download Options. (line 250)
+ (line 103)
+* spider: Download Options. (line 261)
* SSL: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
(line 6)
* SSL certificate: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 56)
+ (line 57)
* SSL certificate authority: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 82)
+ (line 83)
* SSL certificate type, specify: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 62)
+ (line 63)
* SSL certificate, check: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 32)
+ (line 33)
* SSL CRL, certificate revocation list: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 94)
+ (line 95)
* SSL protocol, choose: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 10)
-* start position: Download Options. (line 153)
+ (line 11)
+* start position: Download Options. (line 159)
* startup: Startup File. (line 6)
* startup file: Startup File. (line 6)
* suffixes, accept: Types of Files. (line 15)
@@ -4651,94 +4837,99 @@ Concept Index
(line 38)
* time-stamping: Time-Stamping. (line 6)
* time-stamping usage: Time-Stamping Usage. (line 6)
-* timeout: Download Options. (line 261)
-* timeout, connect: Download Options. (line 285)
-* timeout, DNS: Download Options. (line 279)
-* timeout, read: Download Options. (line 290)
+* timeout: Download Options. (line 272)
+* timeout, connect: Download Options. (line 296)
+* timeout, DNS: Download Options. (line 290)
+* timeout, read: Download Options. (line 301)
* timestamping: Time-Stamping. (line 6)
* tries: Download Options. (line 11)
-* Trust server names: HTTP Options. (line 352)
+* Trust server names: HTTP Options. (line 358)
* types of files: Types of Files. (line 6)
-* unlink: Download Options. (line 557)
+* unlink: Download Options. (line 568)
* 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 506)
+* user: Download Options. (line 517)
* user-agent: HTTP Options. (line 218)
* various: Various. (line 6)
* verbose: Logging and Input File Options.
(line 32)
-* wait: Download Options. (line 321)
-* wait, random: Download Options. (line 344)
-* waiting between retries: Download Options. (line 335)
+* wait: Download Options. (line 332)
+* wait, random: Download Options. (line 355)
+* waiting between retries: Download Options. (line 346)
* WARC: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options.
- (line 132)
+ (line 212)
* web site: Web Site. (line 6)
-* Wget as spider: Download Options. (line 250)
+* Wget as spider: Download Options. (line 261)
* 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 404)
+* Windows file names: Download Options. (line 415)

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-Node: Overview2212
-Node: Invoking5716
-Node: URL Format6692
-Ref: URL Format-Footnote-19283
-Node: Option Syntax9385
-Node: Basic Startup Options12062
-Node: Logging and Input File Options12866
-Node: Download Options16423
-Node: Directory Options43269
-Node: HTTP Options45970
-Node: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options63394
-Node: FTP Options70192
-Node: Recursive Retrieval Options74927
-Node: Recursive Accept/Reject Options82796
-Node: Exit Status86839
-Node: Recursive Download87863
-Node: Following Links91036
-Node: Spanning Hosts91998
-Node: Types of Files94198
-Node: Directory-Based Limits98900
-Node: Relative Links101998
-Node: FTP Links102835
-Node: Time-Stamping103702
-Node: Time-Stamping Usage105363
-Node: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals107211
-Ref: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals-Footnote-1108487
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-Node: Examples134263
-Node: Simple Usage134624
-Node: Advanced Usage136045
-Node: Very Advanced Usage139757
-Node: Various141251
-Node: Proxies141956
-Node: Distribution144807
-Node: Web Site145149
-Node: Mailing Lists145445
-Node: Internet Relay Chat147516
-Node: Reporting Bugs147803
-Node: Portability150324
-Node: Signals151949
-Node: Appendices152632
-Node: Robot Exclusion152978
-Node: Security Considerations156773
-Node: Contributors157957
-Node: Copying this manual163535
-Node: GNU Free Documentation License163775
-Node: Concept Index188914
+Node: Top823
+Node: Overview2230
+Node: Invoking5787
+Node: URL Format6771
+Ref: URL Format-Footnote-19450
+Node: Option Syntax9556
+Node: Basic Startup Options12334
+Node: Logging and Input File Options13192
+Node: Download Options17684
+Node: Directory Options46017
+Node: HTTP Options48868
+Node: HTTPS (SSL/TLS) Options67137
+Node: FTP Options78638
+Node: Recursive Retrieval Options85700
+Node: Recursive Accept/Reject Options94957
+Node: Exit Status99162
+Node: Recursive Download100197
+Node: Following Links103436
+Node: Spanning Hosts104402
+Node: Types of Files106667
+Node: Directory-Based Limits111561
+Node: Relative Links114828
+Node: FTP Links115677
+Node: Time-Stamping116568
+Node: Time-Stamping Usage118253
+Node: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals120125
+Ref: HTTP Time-Stamping Internals-Footnote-1121473
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+Node: Wgetrc Location124103
+Node: Wgetrc Syntax124957
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+Node: Sample Wgetrc142041
+Node: Examples148069
+Node: Simple Usage148430
+Node: Advanced Usage149879
+Node: Very Advanced Usage153684
+Node: Various155224
+Node: Proxies155933
+Node: Distribution158890
+Node: Web Site159228
+Node: Mailing Lists159528
+Node: Internet Relay Chat161600
+Node: Reporting Bugs161895
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+Node: Signals166086
+Node: Appendices166793
+Node: Robot Exclusion167141
+Node: Security Considerations171018
+Node: Contributors172228
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diff --git a/doc/wget.texi b/doc/wget.texi
index dafd7bb..c647e33 100644
--- a/doc/wget.texi
+++ b/doc/wget.texi
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
@c %**start of header
@setfilename wget.info
+@documentencoding UTF-8
@include version.texi
@settitle GNU Wget @value{VERSION} Manual
@c Disable the monstrous rectangles beside overfull hbox-es.
@@ -31,8 +32,8 @@ data.
@c man begin COPYRIGHT
Copyright @copyright{} 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003,
-2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc.
+2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2015 Free Software
+Foundation, Inc.
@iftex
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of
@@ -59,11 +60,11 @@ Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled
@title GNU Wget @value{VERSION}
@subtitle The non-interactive download utility
@subtitle Updated for Wget @value{VERSION}, @value{UPDATED}
-@author by Hrvoje Nik@v{s}i@'{c} and others
+@author by Hrvoje Nikšić and others
@ignore
@c man begin AUTHOR
-Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
+Originally written by Hrvoje Nikšić <hniksic@xemacs.org>.
@c man end
@c man begin SEEALSO
This is @strong{not} the complete manual for GNU Wget.
@@ -506,6 +507,23 @@ treated as @samp{html} if the Content-Type matches @samp{text/html}.
Furthermore, the @var{file}'s location will be implicitly used as base
href if none was specified.
+@cindex input-metalink
+@item --input-metalink=@var{file}
+Downloads files covered in local Metalink @var{file}. Metalink version 3
+and 4 are supported.
+
+@cindex metalink-over-http
+@item --metalink-over-http
+Issues HTTP HEAD request instead of GET and extracts Metalink metadata
+from response headers. Then it switches to Metalink download.
+If no valid Metalink metadata is found, it falls back to ordinary HTTP download.
+
+@cindex preferred-location
+@item --preferred-location
+Set preferred location for Metalink resources. This has effect if multiple
+resources with same priority are available.
+
+
@cindex force html
@item -F
@itemx --force-html
@@ -533,6 +551,11 @@ would be resolved to @samp{http://foo/baz/b.html}.
@cindex specify config
@item --config=@var{FILE}
Specify the location of a startup file you wish to use.
+
+@item --rejected-log=@var{logfile}
+Logs all URL rejections to @var{logfile} as comma separated values. The values
+include the reason of rejection, the URL and the parent URL it was found in.
+
@end table
@node Download Options, Directory Options, Logging and Input File Options, Invoking
@@ -585,6 +608,9 @@ content will be placed in @var{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.
+A combination with @samp{-nc} is only accepted if the given output
+file does not exist.
+
Note that a combination with @samp{-k} is only permitted when
downloading a single document, as in that case it will just convert
all relative URIs to external ones; @samp{-k} makes no sense for
@@ -626,6 +652,9 @@ of a file depends on the local and remote timestamp and size of the
file (@pxref{Time-Stamping}). @samp{-nc} may not be specified at the
same time as @samp{-N}.
+A combination with @samp{-O}/@samp{--output-document} is only accepted
+if the given output file does not exist.
+
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.
@@ -787,6 +816,10 @@ used alongside the @samp{--logfile} option.
@itemx --timestamping
Turn on time-stamping. @xref{Time-Stamping}, for details.
+@item --no-if-modified-since
+Do not send If-Modified-Since header in @samp{-N} mode. Send preliminary HEAD
+request instead. This has only effect in @samp{-N} mode.
+
@item --no-use-server-timestamps
Don't set the local file's timestamp by the one on the server.
@@ -1521,6 +1554,11 @@ Please note that wget does not require the content to be of the form
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.
+When sending a POST request using the @samp{--post-file} option, Wget treats
+the file as a binary file and will send every character in the POST request
+without stripping trailing newline or formfeed characters. Any other control
+characters in the text will also be sent as-is in the POST request.
+
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.
@@ -1637,8 +1675,9 @@ form-based authentication.
@cindex SSL
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.
+with an external SSL library. The current default is GnuTLS.
+In addition, Wget also supports HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security).
+If Wget is compiled without SSL support, none of these options are available.
@table @samp
@cindex SSL protocol, choose
@@ -1768,6 +1807,71 @@ 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 @file{/dev/urandom}.
+
+@cindex HSTS
+@item --no-hsts
+Wget supports HSTS (HTTP Strict Transport Security, RFC 6797) by default.
+Use @samp{--no-hsts} to make Wget act as a non-HSTS-compliant UA. As a
+consequence, Wget would ignore all the @code{Strict-Transport-Security}
+headers, and would not enforce any existing HSTS policy.
+
+@item --hsts-file=@var{file}
+By default, Wget stores its HSTS database in @file{~/.wget-hsts}.
+You can use @samp{--hsts-file} to override this. Wget will use
+the supplied file as the HSTS database. Such file must conform to the
+correct HSTS database format used by Wget. If Wget cannot parse the provided
+file, the behaviour is unspecified.
+
+The Wget's HSTS database is a plain text file. Each line contains an HSTS entry
+(ie. a site that has issued a @code{Strict-Transport-Security} header and that
+therefore has specified a concrete HSTS policy to be applied). Lines starting with
+a dash (@code{#}) are ignored by Wget. Please note that in spite of this convenient
+human-readability hand-hacking the HSTS database is generally not a good idea.
+
+An HSTS entry line consists of several fields separated by one or more whitespace:
+
+@code{<hostname> SP [<port>] SP <include subdomains> SP <created> SP <max-age>}
+
+The @var{hostname} and @var{port} fields indicate the hostname and port to which
+the given HSTS policy applies. The @var{port} field may be zero, and it will, in
+most of the cases. That means that the port number will not be taken into account
+when deciding whether such HSTS policy should be applied on a given request (only
+the hostname will be evaluated). When @var{port} is different to zero, both the
+target hostname and the port will be evaluated and the HSTS policy will only be applied
+if both of them match. This feature has been included for testing/development purposes only.
+The Wget testsuite (in @file{testenv/}) creates HSTS databases with explicit ports
+with the purpose of ensuring Wget's correct behaviour. Applying HSTS policies to ports
+other than the default ones is discouraged by RFC 6797 (see Appendix B "Differences
+between HSTS Policy and Same-Origin Policy"). Thus, this functionality should not be used
+in production environments and @var{port} will typically be zero. The last three fields
+do what they are expected to. The field @var{include_subdomains} can either be @code{1}
+or @code{0} and it signals whether the subdomains of the target domain should be
+part of the given HSTS policy as well. The @var{created} and @var{max-age} fields
+hold the timestamp values of when such entry was created (first seen by Wget) and the
+HSTS-defined value 'max-age', which states how long should that HSTS policy remain active,
+measured in seconds elapsed since the timestamp stored in @var{created}. Once that time
+has passed, that HSTS policy will no longer be valid and will eventually be removed
+from the database.
+
+If you supply your own HSTS database via @samp{--hsts-file}, be aware that Wget
+may modify the provided file if any change occurs between the HSTS policies
+requested by the remote servers and those in the file. When Wget exists,
+it effectively updates the HSTS database by rewriting the database file with the new entries.
+
+If the supplied file does not exist, Wget will create one. This file will contain the new HSTS
+entries. If no HSTS entries were generated (no @code{Strict-Transport-Security} headers
+were sent by any of the servers) then no file will be created, not even an empty one. This
+behaviour applies to the default database file (@file{~/.wget-hsts}) as well: it will not be
+created until some server enforces an HSTS policy.
+
+Care is taken not to override possible changes made by other Wget processes at
+the same time over the HSTS database. Before dumping the updated HSTS entries
+on the file, Wget will re-read it and merge the changes.
+
+Using a custom HSTS database and/or modifying an existing one is discouraged.
+For more information about the potential security threats arised from such practice,
+see section 14 "Security Considerations" of RFC 6797, specially section 14.9
+"Creative Manipulation of HSTS Policy Store".
@end table
@cindex WARC
@@ -1910,6 +2014,43 @@ this option has no effect. Symbolic links are always traversed in this
case.
@end table
+@section FTPS Options
+
+@table @samp
+@item --ftps-implicit
+This option tells Wget to use FTPS implicitly. Implicit FTPS consists of initializing
+SSL/TLS from the very beginning of the control connection. This option does not send
+an @code{AUTH TLS} command: it assumes the server speaks FTPS and directly starts an
+SSL/TLS connection. If the attempt is successful, the session continues just like
+regular FTPS (@code{PBSZ} and @code{PROT} are sent, etc.).
+Implicit FTPS is no longer a requirement for FTPS implementations, and thus
+many servers may not support it. If @samp{--ftps-implicit} is passed and no explicit
+port number specified, the default port for implicit FTPS, 990, will be used, instead
+of the default port for the "normal" (explicit) FTPS which is the same as that of FTP,
+21.
+
+@item --no-ftps-resume-ssl
+Do not resume the SSL/TLS session in the data channel. When starting a data connection,
+Wget tries to resume the SSL/TLS session previously started in the control connection.
+SSL/TLS session resumption avoids performing an entirely new handshake by reusing
+the SSL/TLS parameters of a previous session. Typically, the FTPS servers want it that way,
+so Wget does this by default. Under rare circumstances however, one might want to
+start an entirely new SSL/TLS session in every data connection.
+This is what @samp{--no-ftps-resume-ssl} is for.
+
+@item --ftps-clear-data-connection
+All the data connections will be in plain text. Only the control connection will be
+under SSL/TLS. Wget will send a @code{PROT C} command to achieve this, which must be
+approved by the server.
+
+@item --ftps-fallback-to-ftp
+Fall back to FTP if FTPS is not supported by the target server. For security reasons,
+this option is not asserted by default. The default behaviour is to exit with an error.
+If a server does not successfully reply to the initial @code{AUTH TLS} command, or in the
+case of implicit FTPS, if the initial SSL/TLS connection attempt is rejected, it is
+considered that such server does not support FTPS.
+@end table
+
@node Recursive Retrieval Options, Recursive Accept/Reject Options, FTP Options, Invoking
@section Recursive Retrieval Options
@@ -1988,6 +2129,23 @@ Note that only at the end of the download can Wget know which links have
been downloaded. Because of that, the work done by @samp{-k} will be
performed at the end of all the downloads.
+@item --convert-file-only
+This option converts only the filename part of the URLs, leaving the rest
+of the URLs untouched. This filename part is sometimes referred to as the
+"basename", although we avoid that term here in order not to cause confusion.
+
+It works particularly well in conjunction with @samp{--adjust-extension}, although
+this coupling is not enforced. It proves useful to populate Internet caches
+with files downloaded from different hosts.
+
+Example: if some link points to @file{//foo.com/bar.cgi?xyz} with
+@samp{--adjust-extension} asserted and its local destination is intended to be
+@file{./foo.com/bar.cgi?xyz.css}, then the link would be converted to
+@file{//foo.com/bar.cgi?xyz.css}. Note that only the filename part has been
+modified. The rest of the URL has been left untouched, including the net path
+(@code{//}) which would otherwise be processed by Wget and converted to the
+effective scheme (ie. @code{http://}).
+
@cindex backing up converted files
@item -K
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@@ -4096,12 +4254,7 @@ me).
@section Contributors
@cindex contributors
-@iftex
-GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nik@v{s}i@'{c} @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org},
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Niksic @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org}.
-@end ifnottex
+GNU Wget was written by Hrvoje Nikšić @email{hniksic@@xemacs.org},
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,
@@ -4141,14 +4294,8 @@ portability fixes.
Gordon Matzigkeit---@file{.netrc} support.
@item
-@iftex
-Zlatko @v{C}alu@v{s}i@'{c}, Tomislav Vujec and Dra@v{z}en
-Ka@v{c}ar---feature suggestions and ``philosophical'' discussions.
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Zlatko Calusic, Tomislav Vujec and Drazen Kacar---feature suggestions
-and ``philosophical'' discussions.
-@end ifnottex
+Zlatko Čalušić, Tomislav Vujec and Dražen
+Kačar---feature suggestions and ``philosophical'' discussions.
@item
Darko Budor---initial port to Windows.
@@ -4158,21 +4305,11 @@ Antonio Rosella---help and suggestions, plus the initial Italian
translation.
@item
-@iftex
-Tomislav Petrovi@'{c}, Mario Miko@v{c}evi@'{c}---many bug reports and
+Tomislav Petrović, Mario Mikočević---many bug reports and
suggestions.
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Tomislav Petrovic, Mario Mikocevic---many bug reports and suggestions.
-@end ifnottex
@item
-@iftex
-Fran@,{c}ois Pinard---many thorough bug reports and discussions.
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Francois Pinard---many thorough bug reports and discussions.
-@end ifnottex
+François Pinard---many thorough bug reports and discussions.
@item
Karl Eichwalder---lots of help with internationalization, Makefile
@@ -4235,12 +4372,7 @@ Wanderlei Cavassin,
Gilles Cedoc,
Tim Charron,
Noel Cragg,
-@iftex
-Kristijan @v{C}onka@v{s},
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Kristijan Conkas,
-@end ifnottex
+Kristijan Čonkaš,
John Daily,
Andreas Damm,
Ahmon Dancy,
@@ -4250,27 +4382,12 @@ Alexander Dergachev,
Andrew Deryabin,
Ulrich Drepper,
Marc Duponcheel,
-@iftex
-Damir D@v{z}eko,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Damir Dzeko,
-@end ifnottex
+Damir Džeko,
Alan Eldridge,
Hans-Andreas Engel,
-@iftex
-Aleksandar Erkalovi@'{c},
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Aleksandar Erkalovic,
-@end ifnottex
+Aleksandar Erkalović,
Andy Eskilsson,
-@iftex
-Jo@~{a}o Ferreira,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Joao Ferreira,
-@end ifnottex
+João Ferreira,
Christian Fraenkel,
David Fritz,
Mike Frysinger,
@@ -4295,25 +4412,10 @@ Richard Huveneers,
Jonas Jensen,
Larry Jones,
Simon Josefsson,
-@iftex
-Mario Juri@'{c},
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Mario Juric,
-@end ifnottex
-@iftex
-Hack Kampbj@o rn,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Hack Kampbjorn,
-@end ifnottex
+Mario Jurić,
+Hack Kampbjørn,
Const Kaplinsky,
-@iftex
-Goran Kezunovi@'{c},
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Goran Kezunovic,
-@end ifnottex
+Goran Kezunović,
Igor Khristophorov,
Robert Kleine,
KOJIMA Haime,
@@ -4322,31 +4424,14 @@ Alexander Kourakos,
Martin Kraemer,
Sami Krank,
Jay Krell,
-@tex
-$\Sigma\acute{\iota}\mu o\varsigma\;
-\Xi\varepsilon\nu\iota\tau\acute{\epsilon}\lambda\lambda\eta\varsigma$
-(Simos KSenitellis),
-@end tex
-@ifnottex
-Simos KSenitellis,
-@end ifnottex
+Σίμος Ξενιτέλλης (Simos KSenitellis),
Christian Lackas,
Hrvoje Lacko,
Daniel S.@: Lewart,
-@iftex
-Nicol@'{a}s Lichtmeier,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Nicolas Lichtmeier,
-@end ifnottex
+Nicolás Lichtmeier,
Dave Love,
Alexander V.@: Lukyanov,
-@iftex
-Thomas Lu@ss{}nig,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Thomas Lussnig,
-@end ifnottex
+Thomas Lußnig,
Andre Majorel,
Aurelien Marchand,
Matthew J.@: Mellon,
@@ -4367,31 +4452,15 @@ Leonid Petrov,
Simone Piunno,
Andrew Pollock,
Steve Pothier,
-@iftex
-Jan P@v{r}ikryl,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Jan Prikryl,
-@end ifnottex
+Jan Přikryl,
Marin Purgar,
-@iftex
-Csaba R@'{a}duly,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Csaba Raduly,
-@end ifnottex
+Csaba Ráduly,
Keith Refson,
Bill Richardson,
Tyler Riddle,
Tobias Ringstrom,
Jochen Roderburg,
-@c Texinfo doesn't grok @'{@i}, so we have to use TeX itself.
-@tex
-Juan Jos\'{e} Rodr\'{\i}guez,
-@end tex
-@ifnottex
-Juan Jose Rodriguez,
-@end ifnottex
+Juan José Rodríguez,
Maciej W.@: Rozycki,
Edward J.@: Sabol,
Heinz Salzmann,
@@ -4418,12 +4487,7 @@ Dave Turner,
Gisle Vanem,
Rabin Vincent,
Russell Vincent,
-@iftex
-@v{Z}eljko Vrba,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Zeljko Vrba,
-@end ifnottex
+Željko Vrba,
Charles G Waldman,
Douglas E.@: Wegscheid,
Ralf Wildenhues,
@@ -4432,12 +4496,7 @@ Benjamin Wolsey,
Saint Xavier,
YAMAZAKI Makoto,
Jasmin Zainul,
-@iftex
-Bojan @v{Z}drnja,
-@end iftex
-@ifnottex
-Bojan Zdrnja,
-@end ifnottex
+Bojan Ždrnja,
Kristijan Zimmer,
Xin Zou.
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