Wget

[negg]

Hi ive noticed that Aria2 util gets updated from time to time but wget does not. do you think its time to update this program now ????

[Gerby]

Hi negg,

There was a long time, where nothing happened with wget. But you're right, nowadays the wget project seems to be more in a movement and an update of wget in the WOU repository would be something to think about.

The problem: There isn't any official binary for Windows. So you either must trust one of the third-party providers or build it yourself.

I'm using these binary builds for a longer time now: https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ provided by Jernej Simončič
It has the advantage of working with secured connections (https) and showing the download progress in the Windows Taskbar. Furthermore, Jernej documents the additional code being used. A little drawback: The binary is quite big related to the current one (3,4 MB vs. 228,5 kB).

You could just replace wget.exe in the /bin/ folder yourself for now. Everything is working fine here.

Greetz
Gerby

[negg]

tnx i shall look into that....