sklvjz / axel

Improvement of Axel Download Accelerator

This file only shows new features added since version 2.4, original README is still available.

Branch: master

Contains original axel, except for couple modications:

• MAX_REDIR is set to 25, since there are plenty of URLs which will be redirected more than 5 times.
• Length of allowed redirect url increased from 255 to 1000. (Youtube download was not working).

Branch: unicode-progressbar

Displays awesome progress bar using unicode characters. If your console does not support unicode, don't turn it on.

• New command-line argument -u or --unicode that switches to unicode output.
• New config file option unicode_output = 1
• Detects width of the console/terminal.

Branch: reactivation

Implements something silimar to dynamic segmentation. Finished connections will be reactivated on a different segment of file.

• There are no new config file or argument options.

Branch: no-clobber

Skip files that are already downloaded (don't clobber from wget).

• New command-line argument -c or --no-clobber.
• New config file option no_clobber = 1

Firefox cookies

It is not a good idea to read cookies from sqlite file, since firefox does not write all cookies to the disk. Instead there is a flashgot extension for firefox that integrates it with various download managers. Flashgot 1.2.8 and newer has a better support for axel. Forum thread.

Branch: content-disposition

Recognize Content-disposition in HTTP headers, and save with appropriate filename.

• There are no new config file or argument options.

Planned branch: https

Branches: releaseX

These branches are used to merge several features together for testing. I will consider merging only semi-stable features. This branch may not always contain latest version of features (merging is done periodically).

Extra notes

Testing is done on:

• Ubuntu 10.10 GNU/Linux
• FreeBSD 7.1 (thanks to bagside/bagvapp)
• OpenSolaris 2008.5 SunOS 5.11 (thanks to bagside/bagvapp)
• OpenBSD 3.8 (thanks to Will Backman)
• NetBSD (thanks to Philip A. Nelson)

Original README, CHANGELOG and license were not modified.

Contact

Here on github, or email: [email protected]