This chapter contains all the stuff that could not fit anywhere else.
Proxies are special-purpose HTTP servers designed to transfer data from remote servers to local clients. One typical use of proxies is lightening network load for users behind a slow connection. This is achieved by channeling all HTTP and FTP requests through the proxy which caches the transferred data. When a cached resource is requested again, proxy will return the data from cache. Another use for proxies is for companies that separate (for security reasons) their internal networks from the rest of Internet. In order to obtain information from the Web, their users connect and retrieve remote data using an authorized proxy.
Wget supports proxies for both HTTP and FTP retrievals. The standard way to specify proxy location, which Wget recognizes, is using the following environment variables:
http_proxy
ftp_proxy
no_proxy
no_proxy
is `.mit.edu', proxy will not be used to retrieve
documents from MIT.
In addition to the environment variables, proxy location and settings may be specified from within Wget itself.
Some proxy servers require authorization to enable you to use them. The
authorization consists of username and password, which must
be sent by Wget. As with HTTP authorization, several
authentication schemes exist. For proxy authorization only the
Basic
authentication scheme is currently implemented.
You may specify your username and password either through the proxy URL or through the command-line options. Assuming that the company's proxy is located at `proxy.srce.hr' at port 8001, a proxy URL location containing authorization data might look like this:
http://hniksic:mypassword@proxy.company.com:8001/
Alternatively, you may use the `proxy-user' and
`proxy-password' options, and the equivalent `.wgetrc'
settings proxy_user
and proxy_passwd
to set the proxy
username and password.
Like all GNU utilities, the latest version of Wget can be found at the master GNU archive site prep.ai.mit.edu, and its mirrors. For example, Wget 1.5.3 can be found at ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/wget-1.5.3.tar.gz
Wget has its own mailing list at wget@sunsite.auc.dk, thanks to Karsten Thygesen. The mailing list is for discussion of Wget features and web, reporting Wget bugs (those that you think may be of interest to the public) and mailing announcements. You are welcome to subscribe. The more people on the list, the better!
To subscribe, send mail to wget-subscribe@sunsite.auc.dk. the magic word `subscribe' in the subject line. Unsubscribe by mailing to wget-unsubscribe@sunsite.auc.dk.
The mailing list is archived at http://fly.cc.fer.hr/archive/wget.
You are welcome to send bug reports about GNU Wget to bug-wget@gnu.org. The bugs that you think are of the interest to the public (i.e. more people should be informed about them) can be Cc-ed to the mailing list at wget@sunsite.auc.dk.
Before actually submitting a bug report, please try to follow a few simple guidelines.
gdb `which
wget` core
and type where
to get the backtrace.
Since Wget uses GNU Autoconf for building and configuring, and avoids using "special" ultra--mega--cool features of any particular Unix, it should compile (and work) on all common Unix flavors.
Various Wget versions have been compiled and tested under many kinds of Unix systems, including Solaris, Linux, SunOS, OSF (aka Digital Unix), Ultrix, *BSD, IRIX, and others; refer to the file `MACHINES' in the distribution directory for a comprehensive list. If you compile it on an architecture not listed there, please let me know so I can update it.
Wget should also compile on the other Unix systems, not listed in `MACHINES'. If it doesn't, please let me know.
Thanks to kind contributors, this version of Wget compiles and works on Microsoft Windows 95 and Windows NT platforms. It has been compiled successfully using MS Visual C++ 4.0, Watcom, and Borland C compilers, with Winsock as networking software. Naturally, it is crippled of some features available on Unix, but it should work as a substitute for people stuck with Windows. Note that the Windows port is neither tested nor maintained by me--all questions and problems should be reported to Wget mailing list at wget@sunsite.auc.dk where the maintainers will look at them.
Since the purpose of Wget is background work, it catches the hangup
signal (SIGHUP
) and ignores it. If the output was on standard
output, it will be redirected to a file named `wget-log'.
Otherwise, SIGHUP
is ignored. This is convenient when you wish
to redirect the output of Wget after having started it.
$ wget http://www.ifi.uio.no/~larsi/gnus.tar.gz & $ kill -HUP %% # Redirect the output to wget-log
Other than that, Wget will not try to interfere with signals in any
way. C-c, kill -TERM
and kill -KILL
should kill it
alike.
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