curl

—connect-to

Syntax: --connect-to <HOST1:PORT1:HOST2:PORT2>

• “HOST1” and “PORT1” may be empty, to match any host/port.
• “HOST2” and “PORT2” may also be empty, to use the request’s original host/port.
• Added in curl 7.49.0.
• Example: curl --connect-to ::<IP> <URL>

Compared to --resolve, it can adapt to the request’s original port.

wcurl

wcurl - a simple wrapper around curl to easily download files on Debian 13:

By default, wcurl will:

• Percent-encode whitespaces in URLs;
• Download multiple URLs in parallel if the installed curl’s version is >= 7.66.0;
• Follow redirects;
• Automatically choose a filename as output;
• Avoid overwriting files if the installed curl’s version is >= 7.83.0 (—no-clobber);
• Perform retries;
• Set the downloaded file timestamp to the value provided by the server, if available;
• Disable curl’s URL globbing parser so {} and [] characters in URLs are not treated specially;
• Percent-decode the resulting filename;
• Use “index.html” as default filename if there’s none in the URL.