curl is an excellently powerful library and utility but I agree that wget has better defaults. I am almost certain to get the behavior that I want by just throw

curl is an excellently powerful library and utility but I agree that wget has better defaults. I am almost certain to get the behavior that I want by just throwing a URL at wget, including retrying from the point where it had an issue. I actually ran into a case where our corporate firewall was a little too eager to block a download being performed by the Visual Studio installer because of a signature match partway through a specific download. All I had to do to grab the file was have wget download it. No magic incantations, it was just smart enough to not start the download from the beginning after being cut off, and since it started midway it no longer tripped the signature match rule.