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diff --git a/www/aria2/pkg-descr b/www/aria2/pkg-descr index 81c86b0ee609..5d305837a703 100644 --- a/www/aria2/pkg-descr +++ b/www/aria2/pkg-descr @@ -1,19 +1,28 @@ -aria2 has a segmented downloading engine in its core. Therefore, it -can download files a lot faster than ordinary browsers. Currently it -has following features: -* HTTP/HTTPS GET support -* HTTP Proxy support -* HTTP BASIC authentication support -* HTTP Proxy authentication support -* FTP support (active, passive mode) -* FTP through HTTP proxy (GET command or tunneling) -* Segmented download -* Cookie support (currently aria2 ignores "expires") -* It can run as a daemon process -* BitTorrent protocol support with fast extension -* Selective download in multi-file torrent -* Metalink version 3.0 support (HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent) -* Limiting download/upload speed +aria2 - The next generation download utility + +aria2 is a lightweight multi-protocol & multi-source command-line download +utility. It supports HTTP/HTTPS, FTP, BitTorrent and Metalink. aria2 can be +manipulated via built-in JSON-RPC and XML-RPC interfaces. + +Features: +- Multi-Connection Download. + aria2 can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize + your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your download experience. +- Lightweight. + aria2 doesn't require much memory and CPU time. The physical memory usage is + typically 4MiB (normal HTTP/FTP downloads) to 9MiB (BitTorrent downloads). CPU + usage in BitTorrent with download speed of 2.8MiB/sec is around 6%. +- Fully Featured BitTorrent Client. + All features you want in BitTorrent client are available: DHT, PEX, + Encryption, Magnet URI, Web-Seeding, Selective Downloads and Local Peer + Discovery. +- Metalink Enabled. + aria2 supports The Metalink Download Description Format (aka Metalink v4), + Metalink version 3 and Metalink/HTTP. Metalink offers the file verification, + HTTP/FTP/BitTorrent integration and the various configurations for language, + location, OS, etc. +- Remote Control. + aria2 supports RPC interface to control the aria2 process. The supported + interfaces are JSON-RPC (over HTTP and WebSocket) and XML-RPC. -Author: Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa <tujikawa at users dot sourceforge dot net> WWW: http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ |