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    Wget2 2.1 Brings New Options, Proxies For Non-Default Ports, Better SSL Code

    Phoronix: Wget2 2.1 Brings New Options, Proxies For Non-Default Ports, Better SSL Code

    Released nearly one year ago was GNU Wget2 2.0 as a big improvement over Wget to support more protocols like HTTP/2, enabling multi-threading support and parallel connections, and a range of other feature additions. Published on Thursday was Wget2 2.1 as the newest step forward for this much-improved Wget open-source downloading solution...

    Wget2 2.1 Brings New Options, Proxies For Non-Default Ports, Better SSL Code - Phoronix
    https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wget2-v2.1-Released
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    this is one of those tools that I always give for granted, always being there doing their work.

    Reading this release news made me realize how much work is constantly made behind the scene.

    kudos to the team!

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    • #3
      The wget2 version hasn't seen much uptake as a replacement for wget among distros, right?

      It is the official successor though, right? Made by the same people?

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      • #4
        Why Wget2 when there's curl and Aria2?
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          Originally posted by timofonic View Post
          Why Wget2 when there's curl and Aria2?
          Code:
          wget --mirror
          is pretty sweet. These days I'm liking httpie and the go/rust varients. I find they have more usability for the common stuff.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by timofonic View Post
            Why Wget2 when there's curl and Aria2?
            Different use cases. Curl is fantastic for making HTTP calls, testing APIs, etc — there are better tools for that (I like Httpie), but curl is virtually guaranteed to be present on any machine you might access. Wget is much better as a command-line download tool, since it does a lot more than just fetch one URL... as Fitzie notes, it's good for mirroring pages, downloading entire directories, etc. I'm not familiar with Aria2, but from what I see, it's a more high-level tool... able to run as a background daemon with an embedded web server, rather than being a simple command-line app...
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            • #7
              There was a time when ftp support was removed from wget2. Is this still so?
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              • #8
                Originally posted by nadir View Post
                The wget2 version hasn't seen much uptake as a replacement for wget among distros, right?

                It is the official successor though, right? Made by the same people?
                Different ABI to wget.

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