aria2 is a software for downloading files.

The transfer can be paused, resumed, queued, and saved. It has a friendly GTK-based GUI and useful log consoles.

It supports URL list importing, CRC checking, HTTP proxy servers, HTTP recursive downloads with various useful options, and cut-and-pasting. It can also handle annoying CGI fake download pages.

Here are some key features of "aria2":
· Command-line interface
· HTTP/HTTPS GET support
· HTTP Proxy support
· HTTP BASIC authentication support
· HTTP Proxy authentication support(using GET or CONNECT)
· FTP downloading support
· FTP via HTTP proxy(using GET or CONNECT)
· Segmented downloading
· Cookie support(currently aria2 ignores "expires")
· It can run as a daemon process.
· Very low resource usage

What's New in This Release:
· Added an exception to the license which allows linking with OpenSSL.
· Removed --min-segment-size command-line option.
· Rewritten segment download mechanism of HTTP/FTP download.
· Rewritten the code of limiting upload speed, which is now much precise.
· Removed --upload-limit. Added --max-upload-limit instead.
· Set timeout to 180 in BitTorrent download by default.