[ale] aria2 download utility

[brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)]

Does anyone on this list use aria2? I discovered it today and it looks 
like an impressive replacement for wget and curl for everyday 
downloading. It supports multiple protocols (http, ftp, bittorrent) and 
segmented downloading. I particularly like the support for segmented 
downloading; when you can't find a fast mirror, aggregating the 
bandwidth of several slow mirrors is a nice alternative. It also 
supports metalink, an file format that stores download locations and 
checksum data, which I hadn't heard of before but seems useful.

I know that the DownThemAll extension can do many of these things, but I 
prefer to not have my downloads dependent on Firefox.

http://aria2.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metalink

-Brian