NAME

phttpget — retrieve multiple files via pipelined HTTP

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The phttpget utility is a minimalist pipelined HTTP client, which is used to retrieve multiple files from one server, and saves the downloaded files in the current working directory, using the last portion of their download path as file names.

By making several "in flight" HTTP requests, it can dramatically increase performance when a large number of small files need to be downloaded.

The freebsd-update(8) tool uses phttpget to download binary patch files.

ENVIRONMENT

HTTP_PROXY

URL of the proxy to use for HTTP requests.

HTTP_PROXY_AUTH

Authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy.

HTTP_USER_AGENT

The User-Agent string to use for HTTP requests. The default is “phttpget/0.1”.

HTTP_TIMEOUT

Timeout for HTTP request in seconds.

SEE ALSO

fetch(1), freebsd-update(8)

AUTHORS

The phttpget utility was written by Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> initially for use with portsnap(8) (now removed) and has been used by freebsd-update(8). This manual page was written by Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org>.