1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2015 Xin LI <delphij@FreeBSD.org> 3.\" 4.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 5.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 6.\" are met: 7.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 8.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 9.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 11.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 12.\" 13.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 14.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 15.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 16.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 17.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 18.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 19.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 20.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 21.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 22.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 23.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 24.\" 25.\" $FreeBSD$ 26.\" 27.Dd January 3, 2015 28.Dt PHTTPGET 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm phttpget 32.Nd retrieve multiple files via pipelined HTTP 33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Ar server 36.Ar file ... 37.Sh DESCRIPTION 38The 39.Nm 40utility is a minimalist pipelined HTTP client, 41which is used to retrieve multiple 42.Ar file Ns s 43from one 44.Ar server , 45and saves the downloaded files in the current working directory, 46using the last portion of their download path as file names. 47.Pp 48By making several "in flight" HTTP requests, 49it can dramatically increase performance when a large number of 50small files need to be downloaded. 51.Pp 52The 53.Xr freebsd-update 8 54and 55.Xr portsnap 8 56tools use 57.Nm 58to download binary patch files. 59.Sh ENVIRONMENT 60.Bl -tag -width HTTP_PROXY_AUTH 61.It Ev HTTP_PROXY 62URL of the proxy to use for HTTP requests. 63.It Ev HTTP_PROXY_AUTH 64Authorization parameters for the HTTP proxy. 65.It Ev HTTP_USER_AGENT 66The User-Agent string to use for HTTP requests. 67The default is 68.Dq phttpget/0.1 . 69.It Ev HTTP_TIMEOUT 70Timeout for HTTP request in seconds. 71.El 72.Sh SEE ALSO 73.Xr fetch 1 , 74.Xr freebsd-update 8 , 75.Xr portsnap 8 76.Sh AUTHORS 77.An -nosplit 78The 79.Nm 80utility was written by 81.An Colin Percival Aq Mt cperciva@FreeBSD.org 82for use with 83.Xr portsnap 8 84and later with 85.Xr freebsd-update 8 . 86This manual page was written by 87.An Xin LI Aq Mt delphij@FreeBSD.org . 88