On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Karl Berry<[email protected]> wrote: > > But I'm curious: why not just use rsync? > > Because it would be useful to have just one program which could be used > to "download" stuff over whatever protocol. What's so special about > http[s] and ftp that they should be the only ones supported :)? There's > also bittorrent, for that matter ... a la aria2.sf.net.
I think you'll have a much better chance of getting this integrated into aria2 than wget, curl or something similar. I thought there was a feature request or discussion about this for aria2 before, but can't find it now... I know some metalinks contain rsync:// URLs, along with ftp/http(s)/bittorrent ones so that could be interesting. -- (( Anthony Bryan ... Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] )) Easier, More Reliable, Self Healing Downloads
