Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Hack Kampbjorn To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: wget-1.9-1 Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-Id: <20031107151639.CF98A32A8A8@redhat.com> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 10:16:39 -0500 (EST) DESCRIPTION: GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the two most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without Xsupport, etc. CYGWIN NEWS: - moved documentation to /usr/share - updated to version 1.9 - removed CAN-2002-1344 patch (included in v1.9) - removed init.c and recur.c patches (included in v1.9) - keep netrc.c and wget.texi patches - removed info dir update from postinstall script, _update-info-dir takes cares of this now WGET NEWS: ** It is now possible to specify that POST method be used for HTTP requests. For example, `wget --post-data="id=foo&data=bar" URL' will send a POST request with the specified contents. ** IPv6 support is available, although it's still experimental. ** The `--timeout' option now also affects DNS lookup and establishing the TCP connection. Previously it only affected reading and writing data. Those three timeouts can be set separately using `--dns-timeout', `--connection-timeout', and `--read-timeout', respectively. ** Download speed shown by the progress bar is based on the data recently read, rather than the average speed of the entire download. The ETA projection is still based on the overall average. ** It is now possible to connect to FTP servers through FWTK firewalls. Set ftp_proxy to an FTP URL, and Wget will automatically log on to the proxy as "username AT host". ** The new option `--retry-connrefused' makes Wget retry downloads even in the face of refused connections, which are otherwise considered a fatal error. ** The new option `--dns-cache=off' may be used to prevent Wget from caching DNS lookups. ** Wget no longer escapes characters in local file names based on whether they're appropriate in URLs. Escaping can still occur for nonprintable characters or for '/', but no longer for frequent characters such as space. You can use the new option --restrict-file-names to relax or strengthen these rules, which can be useful if you dislike the default or if you're downloading to non-native partitions. ** Handling of HTML comments has been dumbed down to conform to what users expect and other browsers do: instead of being treated as SGML declaration, a comment is terminated at the first occurrence of "-->". Use `--strict-comments' to revert to the old behavior. ** Wget now correctly handles relative URIs that begin with "//", such as "//img.foo.com/foo.jpg". ** Boolean options in `.wgetrc' and on the command line now accept values "yes" and "no" along with the traditional "on" and "off". ** It is now possible to specify decimal values for timeouts, waiting periods, and download rate. For instance, `--wait=0.5' now works as expected, as does `--dns-timeout=0.5' and even `--limit-rate=2.5k'. INSTALLATION: To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on the http://cygwin.com/ web page. This downloads setup.exe to your system. Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Web" and then click on the appropriate field until the above announced version number appears if it is not displayed already. If you have questions or comments, please send them to the Cygwin mailing list at: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com . I would appreciate it if you would use this mailing list rather than emailing me directly. This includes ideas and comments about the setup utility or Cygwin in general. If you want to make a point or ask a question, the Cygwin mailing list is the appropriate place. *** CYGWIN-ANNOUNCE UNSUBSCRIBE INFO *** If you want to unsubscribe from the cygwin-announce mailing list, look at the "List-Unsubscribe: " tag in the email header of this message. Send email to the address specified there. 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