Single Thread Downloads

Im looking for a way in which to download files using a single thread/connection (for troubelshooting purposes)
Is there any way in curl that allows you to do this ??

Thanks,

I think "wget" uses one not many.

Anyway to change this in wget or in curl ??

Originally Posted by felix001 Anyway to change this in wget or in curl ??

Do you mean: is there any way to do this in wget ?

Yes, use wget. It uses only one thread.

Both curl and wget have many options, and comprehensive documentation. Try reading the man pages.

For example, I found this line after just a few seconds on the curl man page:

Curl will attempt to re-use connections for multiple file transfers, so that getting many files from the same server will not do multiple connects / handshakes. This improves speed. Of course this is only done on files specified on a single command line and cannot be used between separate curl invokes.