fetch



NAME

fetch - Downloads files via HTTP
 

SYNOPSIS

fetch [options] URL
 

DESCRIPTION

fetch is a simple, flexible command line tool for downloading files via HTTP.

It allows you to customize the HTTP GET request that the web server sees, by giving you control over the User Agent and Referrer values.
 

OPTIONS

-A
 do not present default User Agent to server
-a, --agent
 User Agent to present to the server
-f, --filename
 local filename to save the url to
-h, --help
 display this help message
-n, --nosave
 hit the url, but don't save it to disk
-r, --referer
 referer URL presented to the server (no referer presented by default)
-t, --timeout
 number of seconds without data before giving up (less than 0 means don't time out)
-v, --version
 output version information and exit

AUTHOR

Lyle Hanson (lhanson@cs.nmu.edu)
 

SEE ALSO

The HTTP Fetcher library
or type 'man http_fetch'


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Updated July 1, 2001