#Wget for windows 10 how to#
#Wget for windows 10 portable#

wget does not.īidirectional: curl offers upload and sending capabilities. With local or proxy based name resolving.Ĭurl supports HTTPS proxy, that is HTTPS to the proxy. SOCKS: curl supports SOCKS4 and SOCKS5 for proxy access. HTTP auth: curl supports more HTTP authentication methods, especially over HTTP proxies: Basic, Digest, NTLM and Negotiate More SSL libraries and SSL support: curl can be built with one out of thirteen (13!) different SSL/TLS libraries, and it offers more control and wider support for protocol details. For example: OS/400, TPF and other more 'exotic' platforms that aren't straight-forward Unix clones. More portable: curl builds and runs on lots of more platforms than wget. More protocols: curl supports FTP(S), GOPHER(S), HTTP(S), SCP, SFTP, TFTP, TELNET, DICT, LDAP(S), MQTT, FILE, POP3(S), IMAP(S), SMB(S), SMTP(S), RTMP and RTSP. It transfers just the URLs that the user specifies, and does not contain any recursive downloading logic nor any sort of HTML parser. Single shot: curl is basically made to do single-shot transfers of data. Wget is more like cp, using the same analogue. Pipes: curl works more like the traditional Unix cat command, it sends more stuff to stdout, and reads more from stdin in a 'everything is a pipe' manner. It is also slightly harder to make a library than a 'mere' command line tool.

#Wget for windows 10 how to#

This difference is major since it creates a completely different attitude on how to do things internally. Library: curl is powered by libcurl - a cross-platform library with a stable API that can be used by each and everyone.

#Wget for windows 10 portable#

both are portable and run on many operating systems.

both projects started in 1996 (under other names).

both are fully open source and free software.

both are designed to work without user interaction.

both are command line tools that can download contents from FTP, HTTP(S).

Please let me know if you have other thoughts or comments on this document.įile issues or pull-requests if you find problems or have improvements. Please consider my bias towards curl since after all, curl is my baby - but I contribute to Wget as well. The main differences as I (Daniel Stenberg) see them.