cURL
Version: 7.18.0 ||
Release Date: 2008-01-28 ||
License: Other Open Source
curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, FILE and LDAP.
curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and other useful tricks.
It is included with Mac OS X.
Tags: curl , commandline , download , internet , unix
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3 Opinions:
Chances are that if you're using a widget that presents any material from the web, you're using curl without knowing it.
I'm using wget and see the use of both tools in some automated net based installers/scripts. I don't know which one is 'better', judging by the download stuff, in my opinion they both perform equally. It seems to me that curl however supports some more options for downloading (resuming, auth) but then again, I guess I'm not using wget to it's full potential and "know" curl mostly by the description given here anyway. I'd recommend reading the man-pages of both or doing a quick google search to compare them.
Quite useful, especially for handling a list of things, though I've been hearing that wget is better (never used it myself).
Is there anyone here that recommends wget over curl?