W get
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- The title of this article should be wGet. The initial letter is capitalized due to technical restrictions. There is also an Apache security restriction disallowing this term to be used in the address.
GNU Wget is restricted on Jumba servers due to a security limitation of Apache. This means that the phrase "wget" cannot appear in the website address unless it is part of a variable.
Wget is a free software program that implements simple and powerful content retrieval from web servers and is part of the GNU project. Its name is derived from World Wide Web and get, connotative of its primary function. It currently supports downloading via HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP protocols, the most popular TCP/IP-based protocols used for web browsing.
Its features include recursive download, conversion of links for offline viewing of local HTML, support for proxies, and much more. It appeared in 1996, coinciding with the boom of popularity of the web, causing its wide use among Unix users and distribution with all major Linux distributions. Written in portable C, Wget can be easily installed on any Unix-like system and has been ported to diverse environments, including Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows [1], and OpenVMS [2].
It has been used as the basis for graphical programs such as gwget[3] for the GNOME Desktop and wGetGUI for Microsoft Windows.
