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> In many cases Wget2 downloads much faster than Wget1.x due to HTTP2, HTTP compression, parallel connections and use of If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This ap

by msla 7y ago

> In many cases Wget2 downloads much faster than Wget1.x due to HTTP2, HTTP compression, parallel connections and use of If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This appears to be offical: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2 https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2 Which has this wiki: https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/wikis/home https://gitlab.com/gnuwget/wget2/wikis/home > The idea is to have a fresh and maintainable codebase with features like multithreaded downloads, HTTP2, OCSP, HSTS, Metalink, IDNA2008, Public Suffix List, Multi-Proxies, Sitemaps, Atom/RSS Feeds, compression (gzip, deflate, lzma, bzip2), support for local filenames, etc. > Some of these feature have been built into Wget in the meantime, but some other are really hard to implement into the old codebase.

darnir 7y ago
Another feature not mentioned in there is support for verifying GPG signatures of binaries you download. If a gpg signature file exists, Wget2 will automatically verify the binary against that signature file
- rurban 7y ago
  With a .sig or. asc extension? gnu differs from gpg here.
  - darnir 7y ago
    Configurable. Default extension type is sig. However you can specify a list of extensions and it will attempt to verify against the first it finds.