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annotate wget/description.txt @ rev 22361
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1 Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the web using HTTP(S) and FTP,
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2 the two most widely used internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it
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3 will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports
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4 recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as FTP sites -- you can use
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5 Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the web like a WWW
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8 Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to
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9 retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files
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10 from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that support it.
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11 Both HTTP and FTP retrievals can be time stamped, so Wget can see if the remote
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12 file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new
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13 version if it has.
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15 Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed up
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16 retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.
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