This comparison only involves entirely free and open source software.
Feature | curl | wget | wget2 | fetch | lftp | aria2 | HTTrack | HTTPie | xh |
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.netrc | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | |
Bandwidth Limiting | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
Commercial support | + | ||||||||
DNS-over-HTTPS | + | ||||||||
FTP 3rd Party Transfer | + | ||||||||
FTP Active Mode | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
FTP Connection Re-use | + | + | + | + | |||||
FTP Kerberos | + | ||||||||
FTP Ranges | + | ||||||||
FTP Resume | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
FTP Upload | + | + | |||||||
FTPS | + | + | |||||||
GOPHER | + | + | |||||||
GOPHERS | + | ||||||||
H2/H3 Happy Eyeballs | + | ||||||||
Happy Eyeballs | + | ||||||||
HAPROXY protocol | + | ||||||||
HSTS | + | + | + | ||||||
HTTP alt-svc | + | ||||||||
HTTP AWS Sigv4 Auth | + | ||||||||
HTTP brotli | + | + | + | ||||||
HTTP Cookies | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | |
HTTP Digest Auth | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
HTTP etags | + | ||||||||
HTTP gzip | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
HTTP Multipart POST | + | + | + | ||||||
HTTP Negotiate Auth | + | + | |||||||
HTTP NTLM Auth | + | + | + | + | |||||
HTTP Persistent Conns | + | + | + | + | + | ||||
HTTP POST | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
HTTP POST Chunked | + | ||||||||
HTTP Proxy | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
HTTP PUT | + | + | + | ||||||
HTTP Ranges | + | ||||||||
HTTP Redirects | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
HTTP Resume | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | |
HTTP time conditions | + | + | + | ||||||
HTTP zstd | + | + | |||||||
HTTP/1.1 | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
HTTP/2 ALPN | + | + | + | ||||||
HTTP/2 h2c upgrade | + | + | |||||||
HTTP/2 to proxy | + | ||||||||
HTTP/3 | + | ||||||||
HTTPS | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
HTTPS Proxy | + | + | |||||||
IDN hostnames | + | + | + | + | |||||
IMAP | + | ||||||||
In development | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
IPv6 | + | + | + | + | + | yes* | + | + | + |
IPFS gateway | + | ||||||||
LDAP | + | ||||||||
library / API | + | + | |||||||
Metalink | + | + | + | ||||||
MQTT | + | ||||||||
Multilingual Messages | + | + | + | + | |||||
Multiple URLs | + | + | + | + | + | + | |||
Parallel transfers | + | + | + | + | |||||
POP3 | + | ||||||||
Recursive downloads | + | + | + | + | |||||
Retry failed downloads | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | ||
RTMP | + | ||||||||
RTSP | + | ||||||||
Same file multi connect | + | + | + | ||||||
SCP | + | ||||||||
SFTP | + | + | + | ||||||
SMB | + | ||||||||
SMTP | + | ||||||||
SOCKS4 | + | + | |||||||
SOCKS5 | + | + | + | ||||||
SOCKS5 proxy resolve | + | ||||||||
TELNET | + | ||||||||
TFTP | + | ||||||||
Tiny Executable | + | ||||||||
TLS: BearSSL | + | ||||||||
TLS: Client certs | + | + | + | + | + | ||||
TLS: GnuTLS | + | + | + | + | + | yes* | |||
TLS: mbedTLS | + | ||||||||
TLS: OpenSSL | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | |
TLS: rustls | + | + | |||||||
TLS: Schannel | + | yes* | |||||||
TLS: Secure Transport | + | yes* | |||||||
TLS: Session ID cache | + | + | |||||||
TLS: WolfSSL | + | + | |||||||
Unix domain socket | + | ||||||||
URL globbing/sequences | + | + | + | + | |||||
Username/Password | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + | + |
Windows Port | + | + | + | + | + | yes* | + | ||
WebSocket | + | ||||||||
License | MIT | GPL | GPL | BSD | GPL | GPL | GPL | BSD | MIT |
Version | 8.13.0 | 1.21 | 1.99.2 | 4.7 | 3.5.0 | 1.8.3 | 3.43 | 3.2.2 | 0.18.0 |
The mentioned tools:wget,wget2,lftp,aria2,httrack,HTTPie,xh
'Fetch' is an integral part of theFreeBSD operating system.
* aria2 supports IPv6 only in HTTP(S) download
* HTTPie is written in Python + Requests and thus carry their portability and features
"In development" - releases or new things done to the project within the last couple of years.
Please filea bug report if this table is incorrect, or tell us other features we should compare!