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What is transfer?
Last updated: March 28, 2011
Transfer is a term used in web hosting and networking to reference how much data has been moved onto or off of a network in a given time frame.
In web hosting this is usually a set amount of data a customer is allowed to move on or off or their account and depending on the provider could be a combination of web, ftp, email or other types of traffic.
Transfer is often confused with bandwidth.
What is wget?
Last updated: March 28, 2011
Wget is non-interactive network downloader. It is a free utility to download files from the web.
The "non-interactive" in the sense, the wget process will run in the background without a user logged on. This allows you to start retrieval, disconnect from the systemand let wget complete.
It supports the protocols http, https, ftp, and can also retrieve data using http proxies.
It can follow links in HTML pages and create local versions of remote web sites that fully recreating the directory structure of the original site. This is referred to as `recursive downloading.' While doing that, Wget respects the Robot Exclusion Standard (/robots.txt). Wget can be instructed to convert the links in downloaded HTML files to the local files for offline viewing.
Wget has been designed in such way to work in slow or unsatable network connections. In the case where the download fails becuase of some network failure, wget will keep retrying the download until the data gets retrieved. It will instruct the server to download from where it left off, if the server supports regetting.
