* Wget 1.9.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.
* Changes in Wget 1.9.
** 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@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'.
Ensure that RPATH_FLAG is seen by configure (fixes build).
Include bsd.prefs.mk for the WGET_USE_SSL variable and add it to BUILD_DEFS.
Some Makefile cleanup.
have it be automatically included by bsd.pkg.mk if USE_PKGINSTALL is set
to "YES". This enforces the requirement that bsd.pkg.install.mk be
included at the end of a package Makefile. Idea suggested by Julio M.
Merino Vidal <jmmv at menta.net>.
already fixed (patches from RedHat RPM).
Note: this package does not support IPv6 any longer, since no
updated IPv6 patch for wget-1.8.2 exists (to my knowledge).
The next major wget release is expected to contain IPv6 support.
Uservisible changes since 1.7:
** A new progress indicator is now available and used by default.
You can choose the progress bar type with `--progress=TYPE'. Two
types are available, "bar" (the new default), and "dot" (the old
dotted indicator). You can permanently revert to the old progress
indicator by putting `progress = dot' in your `.wgetrc'.
** You can limit the download rate of the retrieval using the
`--limit-rate' option. For example, `wget --limit-rate=15k URL' will
tell Wget not to download the body of the URL faster than 15 kilobytes
per second.
** Recursive retrieval and link conversion have been revamped:
*** Wget now traverses links breadth-first. This makes the
calculation of depth much more reliable than before. Also, recursive
downloads are faster and consume *significantly* less memory than
before.
*** Links are converted only when the entire retrieval is complete.
This is the only safe thing to do, as only then is it known what URLs
have been downloaded.
*** BASE tags are handled correctly when converting links. Since Wget
already resolves <base href="..."> when resolving handling URLs, link
conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
*** HTML anchors are now handled correctly. Links to an anchor in the
same document (<a href="#anchorname">), which used to confuse Wget,
are now converted correctly.
*** When in page-requisites (-p) mode, no-parent (-np) is ignored when
retrieving for inline images, stylesheets, and other documents needed
to display the page.
*** Page-requisites (-p) mode now works with frames. In other words,
`wget -p URL-THAT-USES-FRAMES' will now download the frame HTML files,
and all the files that they need to be displayed properly.
** `--base' now works conjunction with `--input-file', providing a
base for each URL and thereby allowing the URLs in the file to be
relative.
** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
addresses when accessing the first one fails.
** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
non-standard port.
** Wget now supports the robots.txt directives specified in
<http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/norobots-rfc.txt>.
** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
** No more than 20 successive redirections are allowed.
Highlights of changes since 1.7:
* bugfixes
* new progress bar indicator
* breath-first recursive descent
* host directories contain port information if the server is at a
non-standard port
full list:
http://cvs.sunsite.dk/viewcvs.cgi/wget/NEWS?rev=WGET_1_8&content-type=text/plain
Provided by michal@pasternak.w.lub.pl in pkg/16124
Summary of changes:
- removal of USE_GTEXINFO
- addition of mk/texinfo.mk
- inclusion of this file in package Makefiles requiring it
- `install-info' substituted by `${INSTALL_INFO}' in PLISTs
- tuning of mk/bsd.pkg.mk:
removal of USE_GTEXINFO
INSTALL_INFO added to PLIST_SUBST
`${INSTALL_INFO}' replace `install-info' in target rules
print-PLIST target now generate `${INSTALL_INFO}' instead of `install-info'
- a couple of new patch files added for a handful of packages
- setting of the TEXINFO_OVERRIDE "switch" in packages Makefiles requiring it
- devel/cssc marked requiring texinfo 4.0
- a couple of packages Makefiles were tuned with respect of INFO_FILES and
makeinfo command usage
See -newly added by this commit- section 10.24 of Packages.txt for
further information.
Makefiles during the build process by touching various auto{conf,make}
source files to make them up-to-date. Packages that require regenerating
the configure script and Makefile.in files should make the appropriate
calls to auto{conf,make} in a pre-configure target. This allows the
various targets listed in ${_CONFIG_PREREQ} to modify the generated files
without triggering the GNU auto* tools and having the modifications be
overwritten.
directly by patching the script. This causes LDFLAGS to be reset properly
before checking for gettext(), which now succeeds and causes the locale
files to be built. Remove USE_LIBINTL as unnecessary. Tested on
NetBSD-1.5W/i386 and NetBSD-1.5.1/mac68k.
first component is now a package name+version/pattern, no more
executable/patchname/whatnot.
While there, introduce BUILD_USES_MSGFMT as shorthand to pull in
devel/gettext unless /usr/bin/msgfmt exists (i.e. on post-1.5 -current).
Patch by Alistair Crooks <agc@netbsd.org>
