phttpget
—
retrieve multiple files via pipelined HTTP
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)
and
portsnap(8)
tools use phttpget
to download binary patch
files.