Si-wei Louis Liu writes: > I don't think puf is totally functioning equal to aget. ;-)
I wasn't necessarily suggesting they were; just surprised to see the somewhat obscure aget proposed with no mention of 'puf.' > puf, just as its name, fetches bunch of URLs in parallel, more like > another wget with parallelism. However, it cannot simply download a > large file (i.e. a kernel archive like, an .iso image, etc.) in > parallel, esp. over a not so fast network. Aget can fill this gap by > dividing the large file downloaded into multiple parts, each of which is > handled by a pthread, and facilitates the falling over from download > failures. OK ... though there are likely a few controversial issues buried in there. > Moreover, aget is based on BSD(-like) license, and its been ported to > OpenBSD, NetBSD, FreeBSD, and Linux, etc. long before. This is another > reason for selecting aget as multi-threaded HTTP file downloader on Solaris. I don't think the license really matters, at least in this review. The unfortunate thing here is the apparent long-standing disagreement between the aget and wget folks on multiple streams, leading to duplicate tools. *sigh* In any event, +1. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
