Download Machine Features

Major features of Download machine.

Design goals

1. Non graphical
2. Non interactive
3. Relieable downloads
4. Queued downloads
5. Portability (uses Java)
6. Simple to use
7. Resume interrupted downloads

Transports

1. Support for HTTP/1.1 protocol
2. Support for HTTP/1.0 protocol
3. Support for FTP protocol
4. Support for FSP protocol

Custom headers

1. Fake user-agent header
2. Custom referer header, configurable per URL
3. Custom cookie header, configurable per URL

Other features

1. Can check in different directories if we already have downloaded file (configurable by wildcard)
2. Can move downloaded file to special directory (configurable by wildcard)