An important note regarding updates.

Currently this page is in dire need of being updated.
You will probably find newer stuff (both development and stable) at Christopher's - due to too much Real Life I don't have the time to provide these binaries any more.
While the latest stable binary tries to be up-to-date, there isn't yet a binary for the current development source tree.
The whole documentation presented here is in need of updates and reconstruction.
These changes will need to wait some time due to personal reasons.
In the meantime take a look at the official wget page.
Note the part about the mailing lists if you need further help - for most questions the wget mailing will be the most usefull. Either browse the archives mentioned or subscribe.

If you really want the old outdated page look here.

If you don't know which version to get: GET THIS ONE: 1.10.2 complete
SSL libraries included in the archive. For source see entry in the following table.
097g SSL Libraries 2005/04/13 ssllibs. Source at www.openssl.org, openssl-0.9.7g.tar.gz. You'll need to drop the libraries somewhere in your PATH or c:\Winnt or c:\Windows or whatever suits your installation in order to make https connections work, as described there.
Note: these are for the binaries listed below here before the next ssl libraries (2003/05/19).
Older binaries could possibly work with these ssl libraries, too.
Yet older binaries require older ssl libraries and won't work with these.
1.10.2 STABLE VERSION 2005/10/17 original source, zipped source (just zipped, otherwise the same you can find as tar.gz on your favorite gnu mirror). This is mainly a security bugfix regarding NTLM authorization. The root level diff included turns off selectively optimization if you are using MSVC6 in order to work around a compiler bug.
Binary for wget 1.10.2, ssl enabled (libraries included).
1.10.1 STABLE VERSION 2005/08/22 original source, zipped source (just zipped, otherwise the same you can find as tar.gz on your favorite gnu mirror). The root level diff included turns off selectively optimization if you are using MSVC6 in order to work around a compiler bug.
Binary for wget 1.10.1, ssl enabled (libraries included).
1.10 STABLE VERSION 2005/06/10 original source, zipped source (just zipped, otherwise the same you can find as tar.gz on your favorite gnu mirror). The root level diff included turns off selectively optimization if you are using MSVC6 in order to work around a compiler bug. binary for wget 1.10, ssl enabled (libraries included). Do read the Readme.txt included, note the SSL changes mentioned there.
097c SSL Libraries 2003/05/19 ssllibs. Source at www.openssl.org, openssl-0.9.7c.tar.gz. You'll need to drop the libraries somewhere in your PATH or c:\Winnt or c:\Windows or whatever suits your installation in order to make https connections work, as described there.
Note: these are for the binaries listed below here before the next ssl libraries (2003/05/19).
Older 1.9-beta binaries could possibly work with these ssl libraries, too.
Yet older binaries require older ssl libraries and won't work with these.
1.9.1 older stable version 2003/11/14 This is an bug fix update to the stable 1.9 released version.
original source, zipped source (just zipped, otherwise the same you can find as tar.gz on your favorite gnu mirror), binary for wget 1.9.1, ssl enabled (get these 097c ssllibs or it won't run).
1.9 older stable version 2003/10/23 original source, original source as zip (if you can't use the original tar.gz archive format), binary for wget 1.9, ssl enabled (get these 097c ssllibs or it won't run).
older 097b SSL Libraries 2003/05/19 ssllibs. Source at www.openssl.org, openssl-0.9.7b.tar.gz. You'll need to drop the libraries somewhere in your PATH or c:\Winnt or c:\Windows or whatever suits your installation in order to make https connections work, as described there.
1.8.2 older stable version 2002/05/29 source, binary for wget 1.8.2, ssl enabled (get these 096 ssllibs from or it won't run). Sources are as original, just rezipped in case you can't handle the original tar.gz archive.
1.8.2 is a bugfix release that fixes many bugs reported for 1.8.1. An important legal change is the license exception that allows the user to link Wget with the OpenSSL library.
If you want all the latest bells and whistles (and possibly bugs) get the latest cvs source/binary.
older 096 SSL Libraries 2003/09/23 ssllibs. Source at www.openssl.org, openssl-0.9.6.tar.gz. You'll need to drop the libraries somewhere in your PATH or c:\Winnt or c:\Windows or whatever suits your installation in order to make https connections work, as described there.

If you'd like to know what changed without downloading the sources these are the for the latest source/binary here provided (not always the most current one!) - users probably would be interested in the News file..
If you need to contact me you should use Heiko dot Herold at previnet dot it (cut out the spaces and substitute "dot" and "at"). However I urge you to NOT contact me directly for wget related questions - navigate to the official wget page, learn how to use the mailing lists, and send mail there. This is particulary true for any question of the kind "how can I....?" or "I did this but...". In that case usually on the mailing lists you'll get more and better answers if you post exactly what you are trying to do, what you did already, and (if there are any problems) the output of wget -d.


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Boring facts:
The whole 1.5.3 -> 1.6pre cycle produced about 6000 hits on this counter.
After the wget 1.6 release it logged only about 500 hits in about a couple of months, slowly gaining later.
After the wget 1.7 release in the first couple of weeks there had been already 3500+ new hits (much interest in the new features ?).
Up to 22K at July 2001.
30k shortly after 1.7.1 release (Nov 2001), before I had a chance to put up a binary.
32k+ at 1.8 release (Dec 2001).
35k+ at 1.8.1 release.
62k+ at 1.8.2 release.
220k+ after the big development halt (1.9-dev, about september 2003)
250k+ when transferred to nedstat (Jan 2004)
250k+180k at wget 1.10 release (Jun 2005). Of these 180k (more or less uniformly distributed 10k/month) 55% used Firefox (yai!), 33% Internet Explorer. About 67% came from Windows XP, 17% from a Windows 2000 machine. Anyway 10k is far too much - I suppose there is a fair number of people checking the page for changes in some automatic way. 250k+204k at wget 1.10.1 release (August 2005).
Then I really didn't bother anymore :-)