https and multi-connect command-line download tool?

[mwtb]

I'm looking for a command-line download tool that will handle downloads via authenticated (userassword) https and supports multiple connections to speed things up.

wget does the https, but not the multiple connections.

axel and aget do multiple connections, but not https.

I find it hard to believe there isn't something in the wide world of linux utils that does this.

 

[whitecrook]

Is itpossible to write a script to scrape the remote dir for a filename filesize listing then split this evenly into multiple lists based on filesize to each instance of wget?

I'm sure this could be automated a bit more, with some basic scheduler to choose the next file to retrieve when a wget finishes.

Unless you really need multiple connections to the same file, then I don't know.


edit - prozilla? http://www.thefreecountry.com/webmaster/freeftpclients.shtml

 

[eXor]

Try lftp.


http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-unix-download-accelerator.html

 

[mwtb]

Try lftp.

Thanks, that does the job nicely. I knew there had to be something.