The pre-release of Wget is now available for testing. Please download
it and see if it conforms to standards, expectations, if it compiles
out of the box, etc.
The pre-release is available at:
ftp://gnjilux.srk.fer.hr/pub/unix/util/wget/.betas/wget-1.7-pre1.tar.gz
If all goes well, I plan to release 1.7 some time next weekend.
User-visible changes since 1.6 are:
* Changes in Wget 1.7.
** SSL (`https') pages now work if you compile Wget with SSL support;
use the `--with-ssl' configure flag. You need to have OpenSSL
installed.
** Cookies are now supported. Wget will accept cookies sent by the
server and return them in later requests. Additionally, it can load
and save cookies to disk, in the same format that Netscape uses.
** "Keep-alive" (persistent) HTTP connections are now supported.
Using keep-alive allows Wget to share one TCP/IP connection for
many retrievals, making multiple-file downloads faster and less
stressing for the server and the network.
** Wget now recognizes FTP directory listings generated by NT and VMS
servers.
** It is now possible to recurse through FTP sites where logging in
puts you in some directory other than '/'.
** You may now use `~' to mean home directory in `.wgetrc'. For
example, `load_cookies = ~/.netscape/cookies.txt' works as you would
expect.
** The HTML parser has been rewritten. The new one works more
reliably, allows finer-grained control over which tags and attributes
are detected, and has better support for some features like correctly
skipping comments and declarations, decoding entities, etc. It is
also more general.
** <meta name="robots"> tags are now respected.
** Wget's internal tables now use hash tables instead of linked lists
where appropriate. This results in huge speedups when retrieving
large sites (thousands of documents).
** Wget now has a man page, automatically generated from the Texinfo
documentation. (The last version that shipped with a man page was
1.4.5). To get this, you need to have pod2man from the Perl
distribution installed on your system.
