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Still no name or this mysterious better client.

And what happens when I need something more, or something else? I need to find a different "better client"?

I still type wget when trying to download stuff... not sure if better, except for default behavior.

I usually use curl. wget does have one feature that curl doesn't (or at least I'm aware of), namely recursive downloading. So you can easily somewhat download an entire site.

I've run into weird situations where either curl or wget wouldn't be installed by default, so I use... whatever :)

But usually curl.

I already explained, what's better is what fits your needs exactly.

Without knowing your requirements it would be difficult to say.

Say for example your main concern is latency, you only need support for MTU-sized payloads, you want ro guarantee that the TCP connection is always established ahead of time and your requests always follow the same pattern with a few bytes to tweak.

You can easily write something that can do those things much better than curl in a couple of hours.

Oh right, and if your need is to open a specific site only, your best choice would be to write your own browser heavily optimized just for this particular site, instead of using Chrome. Nonsense.

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