Notes to self from the excellent web source:
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-download-guide-with-15-awesome-examples/
On a high-level, both wget and curl are command line utilities that do the same thing.
http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2009/09/the-ultimate-wget-download-guide-with-15-awesome-examples/
On a high-level, both wget and curl are command line utilities that do the same thing.
- They both can be used to download files using FTP and HTTP(s).
- You can also send HTTP POST request using curl and wget
- However curl provides APIs that can be used by programmers inside their own code. curl uses libcurl which is a cross-platform library.
- wget is just a command-line tool without any APIs.
- Curl also supports lot more protocols that wget doesn’t support. For example: SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, LDAP(S), FILE, POP3, IMAP, SMTP, RTMP and RTSP.
- There is a major advantage of using wget. wget supports recursive download, while curl doesn’t.
