Wget is a network utility to retrieve files from the Web using http(s) and ftp, the two most widely used Internet protocols. The program supports recursive retrieval of web-authoring pages as well as ftp sites -- you can use wget to make mirrors of archives and home pages or to travel the Web like a WWW robot. Wget works particularly well with slow or unstable connections by continuing to retrieve a document until the document is fully downloaded. Re-getting files from where it left off works on servers (both http and ftp) that support it. Both http and ftp retrievals can be time stamped, so wget can see if the remote file has changed since the last retrieval and automatically retrieve the new version if it has. The MinGW/MSYS project provides two versions of wget: this MSYS one supports https and understands MSYS pathnames, but requires the MSYS dll (and various others) to be installed. There is also a 'mingwPORT' wget, which is a MinGW (that is, native Win32) version. That version has no external dependencies but is based on an older version of wget and does not support https.