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@@ -0,0 +1,89 @@ + -*- text -*- +GNU Wget +======== + Current Web home: https://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 retrieve 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 <https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/>. + +If you would like to contribute code for Wget, please read +CONTRIBUTING.md. + +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) 1995-2020 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. |