Almost Useless get-file-over-http Program

September 2, 2022 · View on GitHub

Usage: uget [-hInsvV] [-c CACERT] [-o FILE] [-t SEC.MSEC] [URL]

Options:
  -c CACERT    Override built-in path to CA certificate to use to verify peer
  -h           This help text
  -I           Ask server for HEAD of location instead of GET whole content
  -n           Disable TCP_NODELAY socket option
  -o FILE      Write output to FILE rather than stdout
  -s           Disable strict certificate validation
  -t SEC.MSEC  Set socket send/recv timeout
  -v           Verbose mode, use twice to enable debug messages
  -V           Show program name and version

Copyright (c) 2019-2022  Joachim Wiberg <troglobit@gmail.com>

Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

Caveat

Unless you're here for something really small and generally useless, albeit with a very liberal Open Source license, you will want something else instead, something useful. Like:

wget, or
curl

They are really much better suited (and less buggy!) for everyday use than uget. Each one has its merits; if you just want to fetch files then use wget, curl can do this too of course, but you need a few more command line parameters. However, if you're a developer and want to debug HTTP connections, then curl is definitely for you!

Origin & References

The uget project shares most of its code with the ssdp-scan tool in the ssdp-responder project. You may also find an equally stupid web server here. Please don't use it for anything remotely production oriented!

Take care
/J