NAME
phttpget – retrieve multiple files via pipelined HTTP
SYNOPSIS
phttpget server file ...
DESCRIPTION
The phttpget 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) tool uses 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 ⟨[email protected]⟩ initially for use with portsnap(8) (now removed) and has been used by freebsd-update(8). This manual page was written by Xin LI ⟨[email protected]⟩.