Sunday, January 6, 2008

aria2 project

aria2 project
aria2 is a utility for downloading files. The supported protocols are http(s)/ftp/BitTorrent/Metalink. aria2 has powerful segmented downloading ability, downloading a file from multiple sources and multiple protocols, utilizing your download bandwidth to the max. It even supports downloading a file from http/ftp and BitTorrent at the same time, while the data downloaded from http/ftp is uploaded to BitTorrent swarm.aria2 also provides most reliable http/ftp downloading experience ever. Using Metalink's chunk checksums, aria2 automatically validates chunk of data while downloading like BitTorrent.
It is being actively developed by Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa.Feature requests and comments are all welcome. Please refer to the contact information at the bottom of this page.
Download
2007-12-09 aria2-0.12.0 released.The source package and cygwin/mingw and Mac OS X(Leopard) binary package are available at sourceforge.net

aria2::gui(Unix, Windows)