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FEATURES
Misc
- full URL syntax
- custom maximum download time
- custom least download speed acceptable
- custom output result after completion
- multiple URLs
- guesses protocol from host name unless specified
- uses .netrc
- progress bar/time specs while downloading
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- "standard" proxy environment variables support
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- config file support
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- compiles on win32 (reported builds on 40+ operating systems)
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- redirectable stderr
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- selectable network interface for outgoing traffic
- IPv6 support
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- persistant connections
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- socks5 support
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- supports user name + password in proxy environment variables
- operations through proxy "tunnel" (using CONNECT)
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HTTP
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- HTTP/1.1 compliant (optionally uses 1.0)
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- GET
- PUT
- HEAD
- POST
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- multipart formpost (RFC1867-style)
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- authentication: Basic, Digest, NTLM(*1), GSS-Negotiate/Negotiate(*3) and
SPNEGO (*4)
- resume (both GET and PUT)
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- follow redirects
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- maximum amount of redirects to follow
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- custom HTTP request
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- cookie get/send fully parsed
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- reads/writes the netscape cookie file format
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- custom headers (replace/remove internally generated headers)
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- custom user-agent string
- custom referer string
- range
- proxy authentication
- time conditions
- via http-proxy
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- retrieve file modification date
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- Content-Encoding support for deflate and gzip
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- "Transfer-Encoding: chunked" support for "uploads"
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HTTPS (*1)
- (all the HTTP features)
- using certificates
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- verify server certificate
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- via http-proxy
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- select desired encryption
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- force usage of a specific SSL version (SSLv2, SSLv3 or TLSv1)
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FTP
- download
- authentication
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- kerberos4 (*5)
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- active/passive using PORT, EPRT, PASV or EPSV
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- single file size information (compare to HTTP HEAD)
- 'type=' URL support
- dir listing
- dir listing names-only
- upload
- upload append
- upload via http-proxy as HTTP PUT
- download resume
- upload resume
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- custom ftp commands (before and/or after the transfer)
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- simple "range" support
- via http-proxy
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- all operations can be tunneled through a http-proxy
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- customizable to retrieve file modification date
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TELNET
- connection negotiation
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- custom telnet options
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- stdin/stdout I/O
LDAP (*2)
- full LDAP URL support
DICT
- extended DICT URL support
GOPHER
- GET
- via http-proxy
FILE
- URL support
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FOOTNOTES
=========
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*1 = requires OpenSSL
*2 = requires OpenLDAP
*3 = requires a GSSAPI-compliant library, such as Heimdal or similar.
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*4 = requires FBopenssl
*5 = requires a krb4 library, such as the MIT one or similar.