freebsd man page for phttpget

PHTTPGET(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					       PHTTPGET(8)

NAME
     phttpget -- retrieve multiple files via pipelined HTTP

SYNOPSIS
     phttpget server file ...

DESCRIPTION
     The phttpget utility is a minimalist pipelined HTTP client, which is used to retrieve multiple files from one server, and saves the down-
     loaded 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 down-
     loaded.

     The freebsd-update(8) and portnap(8) tools use 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), portsnap(8)

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

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