A lightweight well-featured CLI downloader optimized for speed and early preview.
[Build-fix] Fix link errors that started to get triggered with new build toolchains.
[New] Timeout options:
--timeout-connection-period
--timeout-low-speed-period
--timeout-low-speed
[Build-fix] The way previously-shipped waf was checking the existence of
functions triggers a warning/error with GCC 8.1. waf is now
up-to-date. And fragments are created in wscript to check for
functions properly.
[Improvement] saldl now halves chunk-size if it's between 0.5 and 1.5 of file-size. This is done to avoid contention in a single connection.
libcurl >= 7.59. But
distributions will not have that fix for some time../waf configure options --default-chunk-size and --default-num-connections.--get-info (valid arguments are "file-name", "file-size", and "effective-url").7.55.0.[Fix] Truncation options -t,--auto-trunc and -T,--smart-trunc
were broken in v36. They are fixed in this release.
[Improvement] When using --whole-file, it is ensured now that the no. of chunks
(including the last one) will equal the no. of connections. That
is, all chunks will start downloading immediately from the start.
Building saldl with GCC 7 (7.1.1 to be exact) triggers a couple of
warnings. And since -Werror is passed by default (as a way to
enforce a zero warning policy), those warnings actually manifest
as errors, causing builds to fail.
This release does not contain functional changes. It only includes one direct, and one indirect, build fixes.
HIGHLIGHTS
-H short for --custom-headers instead of --use-HEAD (36e89b3f6fdf656e94fda814fefd39e00ea1b336)--random-order option (b9373336dc78906a173468ad067c31c34e57a9a9)-F/--allow-ftp-segments option (fc1911b71066e2ad5d8e8daf1bf08104d890c946)Compared to v33, this is a rather small release.
-I/--no-remote-info. Changes in v33 caused a crash if this option was passed (b8e292c).--merge-in-order. This option forces merging chunks in order, similar to how piping to stdout works (d739fbc).Check out git log v33..v34 for a full list of changes.
In this release, the option to download from two servers concurrently is made
possible with option --mirror-url. Consult the manual page for details.
Also in this release, support for writing to stdout was added (option --stdout).
All saldl's optimizations will work, except chunks will only be merged sequentially.
If -m/--memory-buffers are used, saldl will not create any files or write any
data to disk. Consult the manual page for more details.
--since-file-mtime and --date-cond.
They erroneously required an extra -- at the start (c33187a43af39a7cf5f476580f4a95e2e3c3cca7).--http2-upgrade to
always try HTTP/2 [requires libcurl >= 7.47.0] (70892aa58fa0db07722c5cf9f148b7725991c854).-6/--resolve-ipv6 and -4/--resolve-ipv4 (128de2bf474e168a6f572cd26e3d2bd402a63863).--no-tcp-keep-alive to disable (0bd1a51f303084691b0d8ef82792f96b925d164c).Check git log v32..v33 for a full list of changes.
-M/--since-file-mtime and -Y/--date-cond (3576819).