NAME
phttpget —
retrieve multiple files via pipelined
HTTP
SYNOPSIS
phttpget |
server file ... |
DESCRIPTION
Thephttpget utility is a minimalist pipelined HTTP
client, which is used to retrieve multiple files from
one server, and saves the downloaded files in the
current working directory, using the last portion of their download path as
file names.
By making several "in flight" HTTP requests, it can dramatically increase performance when a large number of small files need to be downloaded.
The
freebsd-update(8) and
portsnap(8) tools use phttpget to download
binary patch files.
ENVIRONMENT
HTTP_PROXY- URL of the proxy to use for HTTP requests.
HTTP_PROXY_AUTH- Authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy.
HTTP_USER_AGENT- The User-Agent string to use for HTTP requests. The default is “phttpget/0.1”.
HTTP_TIMEOUT- Timeout for HTTP request in seconds.
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
The phttpget utility was written by
Colin Percival
<cperciva@FreeBSD.org>
for use with
portsnap(8) and later with
freebsd-update(8). This manual page was written by
Xin LI
<delphij@FreeBSD.org>.