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GNU Wget Manual

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(1)

If you have a `.netrc' file in your home directory, password will also be searched for there.

(2)

As an additional check, Wget will look at the Content-Length header, and compare the sizes; if they are not the same, the remote file will be downloaded no matter what the time-stamp says.