SGI Freeware: wget 1.8.2

wget-1.8.2: description + notes

GNU Wget (wget) is a freely available network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web, using HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol), the two most widely used Internet protocols. It has many useful features to make downloading easier, some of them being:

Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while the user is not logged on.
Wget is capable of descending recursively through the structure of HTML documents and FTP directory trees, making a local copy of the directory hierarchy similar to the one on the remote server.
File name wildcard matching and recursive mirroring of directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Wget can read the time-stamp information given by both HTTP and FTP servers, and store it locally.
Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections.
By default, Wget supports PROXY servers, which can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.
Builtin features offer mechanisms to tune which links you wish to follow.
The retrieval is conveniently traced with printing dots, each dot representing a fixed amount of data received (1KB by default).
Most of the features are fully configurable, either through command line options, or via the initialization file `.wgetrc'.

This build supports both OpenSSL and OPIE.

NOTE: Two variations of wget are available in this package. You can only install one of them.

fw_wget.sw.wget (the default) has no firewall support.
fw_wget.sw.wget-socks5 supports version 5 SOCKS gateways.
If you choose to install the firewall-aware code you'll need the usual SOCKS environment variables (SOCKS_NS and SOCKS_SERVER or SOCKS5_SERVER) and configuration file (/etc/libsocks5.conf). See the fw_socks5 release notes for details.
In either variant you can specify a socksified proxy server (by setting the http_proxy environment variable -- see the "Proxies" section in the "Various" chapter of "info wget").

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