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Wget - Retrieves files from the Web

Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using http and ftp, the two most widely used Internet protocols. It works non-interactively, so it will work in the background, after having logged off. The program supports recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as ftp sites-- you can use wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the Web like a WWW robot.

Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to retrive a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers (both http and ftp) that support it. Both http and ftp retrievals can be time stamped, so wget can see if the remote file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if it has.

Wget supports proxy servers; this can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval, and provide access behind firewalls.



Obtaining

Web pagehttp://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
Source tarballhttp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/wget/wget-1.9.tar.gz
Version 1.9 (stable) released on 2003-10-22
Licensed under GPLv2orlater with Open SSL exc.
This is a GNU package.

Documentation
User reference manual available in HTML, Info, ASCII, TeX dvi, PostScript, and Texinfo formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget-1.8.1/wget.html
Support contacts

Announce List<wget@sunsite.dk> <info-gnu@gnu.org>
Help List<wget@sunsite.dk> <wget-subscribe@sunsite.dk>
Developer List<wget-patches@sunsite.dk> <wget-patches-subscribe@sunsite.dk>
Bug List<bug-wget@gnu.org>

Project contacts

Maintainers
Developers
Contributors
  • Gordon Matzigkeit
  • Darko Budor
  • Junio Hamano
  • Dan Harkless
  • Christian Fraenkel
  • see Changelog in the distribution for complete list

Related information

Source repositoryhttp://cvs.sunsite.dk/viewcvs.cgi/wget/
Interfacescommand line
Source languagesC

Entry information

License verified byAaron Hawley <ashawley@gnu.uvm.edu> on 2003-10-22
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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