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author | Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@slitaz.org> |
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date | Tue Nov 04 21:14:04 2014 +0100 (2014-11-04) |
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1.1 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 1.2 +++ b/wget/description.txt Tue Nov 04 21:14:04 2014 +0100 1.3 @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ 1.4 +Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the web using HTTP(S) and FTP, 1.5 +the two most widely used internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it 1.6 +will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports 1.7 +recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as FTP sites -- you can use 1.8 +Wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the web like a WWW 1.9 +robot. 1.10 +Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to 1.11 +retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files 1.12 +from where it left off works on servers (both HTTP and FTP) that support it. 1.13 +Both HTTP and FTP retrievals can be time stamped, so Wget can see if the remote 1.14 +file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new 1.15 +version if it has. 1.16 +Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed up 1.17 +retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.