The curl-wget Venn diagram

• aria2

  114 33,525 7.5 C++

  aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source, cross platform download utility operated in command-line. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent and Metalink.

  

Aria2c currently looks unmaintained https://github.com/aria2/aria2/pulse

• axel

  8 2,814 6.4 C

  Lightweight CLI download accelerator

  

I recently found [axel], which is very impressive wget-like tool for larger files.

[axel]: https://github.com/axel-download-accelerator/axel

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• wget2

  11 - -

• ht

  39 4,732 9.0 Rust

  Friendly and fast tool for sending HTTP requests

wget on the other hand, automatically converts the ñ to UTF-8 hex and resolves the link perfectly.

I've searched the curl manpage and couldn't find a way to solve this. Please help.

I'm having to use `xh --curl` [1] to "fix" the links before I pass them to curl.

[1] https://github.com/ducaale/xh

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