aboutcode-org / aboutcode-org/fetchcode

Consider switching to curl / wget for http(s) ftp

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Why:
- multipart support
- auth/proxy support
- inferring filenames ( what #56)

Issues:
@pombredanne mentioned it might be too heavy tool for the task
@JonoYang mentioned overhead of doing it via subprocess

Great page comparing wget vs curl
https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/curl-vs-wget.html

@pombredanne mentioned https://aria2.github.io/ as potential alternative which might be better than both curl wget

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