GNU wget is a freely available network utility to retrieve files from the World Wide Web, using
wget-1.5.2: description + notes
HTTP(Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) andFTP(File Transfer Protocol), the two most widely used Internet protocols. It has many useful features to make downloading easier, some of them being:
- Wget is non-interactive, meaning that it can work in the background, while the user is not logged on.
- Wget is capable of descending recursively through the structure of HTML documents and FTP directory trees, making a local copy of the directory hierarchy similar to the one on the remote server.
- File name wildcard matching and recursive mirroring of directories are available when retrieving via FTP. Wget can read the time-stamp information given by both HTTP and FTP servers, and store it locally.
- Wget works exceedingly well on slow or unstable connections.
- By default, Wget supports PROXY servers, which can lighten the network load, speed up retrieval and provide access behind firewalls.
- Builtin features offer mechanisms to tune which links you wish to follow.
- The retrieval is conveniently traced with printing dots, each dot representing a fixed amount of data received (1KB by default).
- Most of the features are fully configurable, either through command line options, or via the initialization file `.wgetrc'.
Note: Although this version of wget is built without
sockssupport, you can specify a socksified proxy server.
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