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GNU Wget

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                  Current Web home: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/



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.



It can follow links in HTML pages and 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 convert the links in

downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.



Recursive downloading also works with FTP, where Wget can retrieves a

hierarchy of directories and files.



With both HTTP and FTP, Wget can check whether a remote file has

changed on the server since the previous run, and only download the

newer files.



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.



If you are behind a firewall that requires the use of a socks style

gateway, you can get the socks library and compile wget with support

for socks.



Most of the features are configurable, either through command-line

options, or via initialization file .wgetrc.  Wget allows you to

install a global startup file (/usr/local/etc/wgetrc by default) for

site settings.



Wget works under almost all Unix variants in use today and, unlike

many of its historical predecessors, is written entirely in C, thus

requiring no additional software, such as Perl.  The external software

it does work with, such as OpenSSL, is optional.  As Wget uses the GNU

Autoconf, it is easily built on and ported to new Unix-like systems.

The installation procedure is described in the INSTALL file.



As with other GNU software, the latest version of Wget can be found at

the master GNU archive site ftp.gnu.org, and its mirrors.  Wget

resides at <ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/wget/>.



Please report bugs in Wget to <bug-wget@gnu.org>.



See the file `MAILING-LIST' for information about Wget mailing lists.

Wget's home page is at <http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>.



MAINTAINER: Micah Cowan <micah@cowan.name>



Wget was originally written and mainained by Hrvoje Niksic.  Please see

the file AUTHORS for a list of major contributors, and the ChangeLogs

for a detailed listing of all contributions.





Copyright (C) 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004

2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 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

the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or

(at your option) any later version.



This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

GNU General Public License for more details.



You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software

Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301

USA.



Additional permission under GNU GPL version 3 section 7



If you modify this program, or any covered work, by linking or

combining it with the OpenSSL project's OpenSSL library (or a

modified version of that library), containing parts covered by the

terms of the OpenSSL or SSLeay licenses, the Free Software Foundation

grants you additional permission to convey the resulting work.

Corresponding Source for a non-source form of such a combination

shall include the source code for the parts of OpenSSL used as well

as that of the covered work.

