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I stopped working on Winget, a graphical wget for which I wrote a functional spec and alpha-level code, because of WackGet, a graphical wget that was less buggy with fewer features. However over the weekend l.m.orchard pointed at SuperDeluxo4.2 wgets and curls, which lists cool things and wget and curl command lines for downloading them. I wanted to get the Project X renditions of Mega Man 2 and 3 themes, so I had to install cygwin curl, because it does globbing in URLs, which is pretty cool. Since then I've used curl more, if only because WackGet always reports itself as wget which gets it plenty of antileech error pages; site owners don't seem to know about curl that much yet, so it sails through a-OK. That plus the globbing plus all the features of curl I don't even know about yet make me think it'd be nice to make a Wincurl (a name already taken by a curling game for Windows). Plus then I could put the features I wanted in winget that WackGet lacks: User-Agent and Referer header setting, easier specification of the target directory, and cookies (though I haven't found a case where cookies were actually useful yet).

If only there were money in it. Hmm.

December 16, 2003 4:12 PM 2 comments