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GNU’s wget command line program for downloading is very popular, and not without reason. While you can use it simply to retrieve a single file from a server, it is much more powerful than that and offers many more features.
"GNU Wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc..." — via GNU Wget —
...once I heard the site might be going down, it was a mad rush between myself and many other security researchers to obtain a local mirror of the contents of the site for ourselves.
"Wget is so flexible you’ve probably been using it for years without knowing it, many scripts use it because it is a boilerplate method of grabbing files, it will even automatically retry under certain circumstances…"
"Sometimes there are files that are available from a Web server using Apache's auto index module (mod_autoindex), and you want to copy them to your machine. And you're satisfied retrieving them over HTTP this one time, rather than another file transfer method like SSH, FTP or rsync for that matter. I usually feel confident retrieving things with GNU Wget ..."
ArchView is a Firefox extension that allows you to open archive (ZIP and RAR) and ISO CD-ROM image files on the Web over HTTP or FTP without downloading them first. That means that if you only want a few files from an ISO image, you no longer have to download the entire archive in order to get just those files.