Download Catalyst News

Download Catalyst is a multi-platform download manager that accelerates and resumes downloads resursively using concurrent threads, with an extensible API and multiple planned interfaces (both console and GUI). This release, though, only contains a text-based client.

This is the first public release of Download Catalyst.
Release date: July 3, 2004.

Features :-
* FTP
* HTTP with basic authentication.
* HTTP-Proxy with authentication.
* Downloading from the local filesystem.
* Ability to resume download from stored states and URLs.
* Downloading from multiple URLs at once.
* SOCKS v4 proxy support.
* Customizable download behaviour.
* Tested on Linux and Windows.

Features planned for comming releases :-
* (0.1.1) Digest authentication for HTTP & HTTP-Proxy.
* (0.1.1) SOCKS v5 proxy support.
* (0.1.2) HTTPS (HTTP over TLS).
* (0.1.2) Gtk+ 2 based GUI prototype.