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WGET 1.11.4 for Windows (win32)
WGET for Windows (win32) - current version: 1.11.4
updated February 18 2010
license
GNU wget
OpenSSL
downloads
where is 1.12?
previous versions
usage
basic options
FTP
proxy
passwords
SSL certificates
wget.ini file
Read below to download and
for some help with wget.
license information and compiler details
Licenseh3
GNU wget
From the
official wget homepage:
"GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using
HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a
non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts,
cron jobs, terminals without Xsupport, etc."
While you can get Windows binaries from
Heiko Herold's page,
the binaries here are tweaked a bit so they operate somewhat better on Windows.
The following changes, compared to the official distribution, were
retained/added since 1.8.2:
Statically linked with (masm optimized) OpenSSL 0.9.8k, which makes
wget.exe completely stand-alone.
Compressed with UPX 1.07 for smaller filesize
It seems the rfc1738 problems on Windows (see below) were fixed in wget 1.9,
so there is no longer a need to edit the source code.
OpenSSL
Wget now supports Secure Socket Layer (SSL, https://...) among other things.
Most available binaries are dynamically linked against OpenSSL, and require you
to have a couple of dll's in your path. The binary on this site is statically
linked with OpenSSL (which makes it larger in size, but stand-alone).
Note the license addendum:
"In addition, as a special exception, the Free Software Foundation
gives permission to link the code of its release of Wget with the
OpenSSL project's "OpenSSL" library (or with modified versions of it
that use the same license as the "OpenSSL" library), and distribute
the linked executables. You must obey the GNU General Public License
in all respects for all of the code used other than "OpenSSL". If you
modify this file, you may extend this exception to your version of the
file, but you are not obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do
so, delete this exception statement from your version."
Furthermore, compiling (statically) with OpenSSL is cumbersome in VC++.
If you were to try this yourself, necessary steps would include:
Getting the OpenSSL source
and untarring it somewhere besides wget source.
Configuring for win32 - this involves Perl (e.g.
ActivePerl).
(ms\do_masm.bat will help)
Compiling static libraries (ms\nt.mak, not
ms\ntdll.mak)...
runtime libraries should be matched between recent OpenSSL and wget
source distributions, but do check (should be /MT).
configure.bat --msvc in the wget tree.
Adding the OpenSSL include and lib directories
to compiler include and linker library paths respectively.
Downloads!
Latest version is 1.11.4, compiled with MS Visual C++ and
linked with OpenSSL 0.9.8k. Page will be updated with new releases of wget.
Wget tends to see a couple of incremental bugfix releases (i.e. 1.11.x).
I am currently using wget 1.11.x on a daily basis.
gt; gt;
wget.exe (401408 bytes)
lt; lt; :
win32 binary with OpenSSL support.
MD5: bd126a7b59d5d1f97ba89a3e71425731br /
SHA1: 457b1cd985ed07baffd8c66ff40e9c1b6da93753
Where is 1.12?h2
Latest official version of wget is currently wget 1.12, however this version
does not currently compile for Windows. I am looking into this, but a Windows
version of wget 1.12 may still take some time.
The suggested mingw32 compile path is not a viable option to me right now,
mainly because of the lack of IPv6 and 64-bit support.
Previous versions
wget 1.10.2 (Dec 2 2005)
wget-1.10.2.exe (332800 bytes):
win32 binary compiled with MS Visual C++ and with OpenSSL 0.9.7i support.
wget 1.9.1 (Jun 03 2004)
wget-1.9.1.exe (308736 bytes):
win32 binary compiled with MS Visual C++ 6.0 and with OpenSSL 0.9.7c support.
Usage
wget is a command line program. You start it from the command prompt, either
command.com in Windows 9x/Me or cmd.exe in Windows 2000/XP. The command prompt
can be found in the Start Menu (Accessories).
wget.exe must be placed in your path (e.g. c:\windows) if you want to be
able to run it from any directory.
To retrieve a file: wget http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/wget.exe
wget in action...
Basic options
First off, the official
manual
has all command line options and parameters.
Display all help: wget --help
Completely mirror a site: wget -mr http://...
-m: mirror
-r: recursive
Mirror without following links to other servers, parent directories:
wget -mrnp http://...
-np: no-parent
Retrieve a html file and convert relative links to absolute ones:
wget -k http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget
-k: 'k'onvert links
Resume partially downloaded files (if supported by the server):
wget -c http://...
-c: continue
Read url's from a file and retrieve them:
wget -i file_with_urls.txt
-i: input-file
Ask for url's (read from stdin):
wget -i -. Enter url's on the command line, press enter after
each url, and terminate with ^Z (press CTRL-Z) on an empty line.
FTP
--glob=off
Don't treat (, *, ? etc. as globbing
characters. Use when transfering files with names that contain these
characters.
--passive-ftp
Use passive mode for data connection (try this if you're behind a firewall,
NAT box...)
Proxy
To make wget use a proxy, you must set up an environment variable before
using wget. Type this at the command prompt:
set http_proxy=http://iproxy.myprovider.net:8080i
...where you use the correct proxy hostname and port for your ISP or
network. You can use ftp_proxy to proxy ftp requests.
--proxy=on
--proxy=off
Turn proxy usage on/off once variable is set; default is on when variable
is present.
Environment variables can be set permanently for the entire system, or
on a per-user basis. Procedure for Windows XP
(similar for NT, 2000, Vista, 7). For Windows 95, 98, ME, add them
to autoexec.bat (use msconfig to do this easily).
Passwords
To retrieve with passwords (http or ftp), you can use the following url
syntax:
wget http://iusernamei:ipasswordi@www.example.net/somedir/somefile
wget ftp://iusernamei:ipasswordi@ftp.example.net/somedir/somefile
Additionally, you can also use --http-user, --http-password
as well as --ftp-user, --ftp-password:
wget ftp://ftp.example.net/somefile --ftp-user=iusernamei --ftp-password=ipasswordi
If username or password contain non-alphanumeric characters, you need to
escape them when passing them in urls (rfc1738 %HH) syntax. For example, with
a username of user@domain and password of pass, your
url becomes http://user%40domain:pass@www.example.net/somefile.
When using escaped urls in batch files, remember that % itself is a special
character, and needs to be escaped itself (by using %% instead of %).
SSL certificates
Current versions of OpenSSL do not come with root certificates. This means
when trying to download over SSL, wget will give you errors such as
Unable to locally verify the issuer's authority.
ERROR: certificate common name `dnsname' doesn't match requested host name
`dnsname'.
Either you can use the suggested --no-check-certificate to
skip authentication - only use this if you only need encryption functionality,
and not authentication.
The alternative is to get a set of root certificates and pass it to wget with
--ca-certificate ifile.crti. The problem is then to get
a correct root certificate bundle first. The following link has a perl script
which will download root certificates from Mozilla and convert them to a
wget usable certificate bundle (you'll need Perl, typically
ActivePerl).
http://www.floodgap.com/software/ttytter/mk-ca-bundle.txt
Do not trust other people to give you a set of root certificates.
This means you should not trust this site (but it no longer offers certificates
anyway). Audit any sources you download root certificates from, audit the
tools you use to process certificates (including the mk-ca-bundle.pl script
linked above).
The official source for root certificates is your Windows install media and
Windows Update (remember to update the root certificates regularly), though
this set is not used by wget and many other Windows tools.
Furthermore, the Windows makefiles for wget refer to the certificate
bundles available at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html (which
are extracted from Mozilla as well).
Default options (.ini file)
You can put either a wget.ini file in the same directory as
wget.exe, or use an environment variable called wgetrc to point to the file
if it is in another location (set wgetrc=\path\to\wget.ini).
Syntax
for wget.ini (or .wgetrc) can be found in the official documentation.
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