This is an accessory tool developed for testing purposes of the capabilities of Cherokee in the early releases. Over the time new functionalities were included and now it can be a really handy tool. You might find it useful for your own scripts, especially for its ability to read and write HTTP headers.
It can handle both HTTP and HTTPS requests.
This is the full information provided by the manpage:
cget - Cherokee web downloader
cget [options] URL
cget is a web downloading tool
No option is mandatory. By default the web is downloaded but it is not saved. If that is not the desired behavior it must be specified explicitly. Below is a summary of the cget options.
Startup
Display version of currently installed cget and exit.
Display help screen with common options.
Logging and input file
Run in quiet mode: no output is displayed.
Download
Writes whatever document is downloaded to FILE
HTTP options
This option saves HTTP headers to the file being saved (speci‐ fied with -O option)
this option inserts STRING among the headers sent in the HTTP request.
