GNU WGET derived from World Wide Web and get, is a free software package for retrieving files or downloader. It can using many protocols like HTTP, FTP, and HTTPS. GNU Wget or Wget is a non-interactive commandline tool.
Written in a highly portable style of C with minimal dependencies on third-party libraries, Wget requires little more than a C compiler and a BSD-like interface to TCP/IP networking. Designed as a Unix program invoked from the Unix shell, the program has been ported to numerous Unix-like environments and systems, including Microsoft Windows via Cygwin, and Mac OS X.
Wget can resume aborted downloads. It also can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories. For you connected behind proxy, you still can use wget, because it support HTTP Proxies. And also it supports HTTP cookies and persistent HTTP connections. And there are many other features from Wget.
Basic usage this Wget is
$ wget http://www.example.com/files.to.download
Now, it has been used as the basis for graphical programs such as GWget and KGet
Written in a highly portable style of C with minimal dependencies on third-party libraries, Wget requires little more than a C compiler and a BSD-like interface to TCP/IP networking. Designed as a Unix program invoked from the Unix shell, the program has been ported to numerous Unix-like environments and systems, including Microsoft Windows via Cygwin, and Mac OS X.
Wget can resume aborted downloads. It also can use filename wild cards and recursively mirror directories. For you connected behind proxy, you still can use wget, because it support HTTP Proxies. And also it supports HTTP cookies and persistent HTTP connections. And there are many other features from Wget.
Basic usage this Wget is
$ wget http://www.example.com/files.to.download
Now, it has been used as the basis for graphical programs such as GWget and KGet