PHTTPGET(8) FreeBSD 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 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 <
[email protected]>
initially for use with portsnap(8) (now removed) and has been used by
freebsd-update(8). This manual page was written by Xin LI
<
[email protected]>.
FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8 January 3, 2015 FreeBSD 14.1-RELEASE-p8