Probably wget's major reason for being is mirroring websites. It does this well. Curl is a more general HTTP library with a command line front end. And of cour

Probably wget's major reason for being is mirroring websites. It does this well. Curl is a more general HTTP library with a command line front end. And of course there are GUI frontends for wget, but it's not really intended to be used as a library. I don't see a problem here.