wok-6.x annotate wget/description.txt @ rev 19292

mingw32-runtime, ms-sys, netkit-rsh, nqc, nvclock: fix man or doc path
author Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org>
date Wed Jul 06 13:17:14 2016 +0200 (2016-07-06)
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al@17288 1 Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the web using HTTP(S) and FTP,
al@17288 2 the two most widely used internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it
al@17288 3 will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports
al@17288 4 recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as FTP sites -- you can use
al@17288 5 Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the web like a WWW
al@17288 6 robot.
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al@17288 8 Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to
al@17288 9 retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files
al@17288 10 from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that support it.
al@17288 11 Both HTTP and FTP retrievals can be time stamped, so Wget can see if the remote
al@17288 12 file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new
al@17288 13 version if it has.
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al@17288 15 Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed up
al@17288 16 retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.