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Features and Benefits

Darcy Ripper offers a large list of features that will enhance the efficiency of the download process.

Graphical User Interface

  1. Multi-platform - Darcy runs on any platform having Java installed;

  2. Real-time view of the download job progress;

  3. Pause-Resume-Stop the download job at anytime;

  4. Save and load download job template files;

  5. Save and load download sessions;

  6. Regular Expressions Tester;

  7. Check for updates support;

  8. Online Help and support.

General Download Features

  1. Multithreaded - configurable number of paralele download jobs to run at a certain moment of time;

  2. Memory control options - user can control what happens to download jobs after they finish;

  3. Multiple starting points (URLs) for download job - user can specify multiple hosts on which a download job can run.

HTTP Connection Features

  1. HTTP/HTTPS support;

  2. GZip compression support;

  3. HTTP Proxy support;

  4. WWW Authentication support;

  5. Cookies support;

  6. Request customization support: referral behavior, configurable agent name;

  7. HTTP response code analysis and configurable behavior;

  8. Connection limits support: number of maximum connections per server, retries number control, bandwidth limitation, limitation depending on the HTTP response code.

Download Control Features

  1. Maximum search depth support;

  2. Maximum number of followed links support;

  3. Maximum time limit support;

  4. Downloaded file size support;

  5. Followed URL prefix support;

  6. Host-name limitation support;

  7. Save to Disk limitation support;

  8. Response behavior limitation matching response header with regular expressions;

  9. Response behavior limitation matching response content with regular expressions;

  10. Downloaded file content limitation support.

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