William H. Magill on 19 Oct 2003 13:30:02 -0400


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[PLUG] wget vs curl


On Friday, October 17, 2003, at 09:46 PM, Paul wrote:
I read that wget can be used to download files with the ability to continue broken connections; a definate plus when copying anything larger than a few hundred meg.

I was told that wget got into some kind of patent/copyright problems... so now curl is the way to do it...


Anyone know the details/differences between the two?

(Other than the fact that wget doesn't seem to have been updated since 2001.)

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