Purpose of this project is to download a large file in .net as fast as possible. Think of curl, but only for downloading large files multi-threaded and as fast as possible. That makes things real quick and easy. This specifically only works with file download over http/https with servers that accept byte range requests. Specifically we only support the Range: bytes={start}-{end} header. Even more specific, this has mainly been used and tested against Amazon S3's http endpoints.

• Delivered as a dll or a console application (Nuget coming soon).
• Requires .NET 4 + and has no external dependencies.

• Custom TCP client written specifically to do range requests
• Works over http or https
• Can handle network glitches
• Has built-in throttling to prevent excessive bandwidth use and high memory consumption
• Settings to tweak thread and chunk size
• Can output to any stream
• Works on .net and mono
• Can detect redirect/shortened urls and download originating location

• Download data from 1000 genomes

TerminalVelocity.exe https://1000genomes.s3.amazonaws.com/data/HG00114/alignment/HG00114.chrom11.ILLUMINA.bwa.GBR.low_coverage.20111114.bam?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIYDIF27GS5AAXHQQ&Expires=1427423604&Signature=z8jczjwn436BxOaM5nLoVhaqD%2Fs%3D

• Download data from shortened url of same address

TerminalVelocity.exe http://tinyurl.com/cynt8ht

• Download 1GB+ file (MD5 290f8099861e8089cec020508a57d2b2)

TerminalVelocity.exe https://1000genomes.s3.amazonaws.com/release/20110521/ALL.wgs.phase1_release_v3.20101123.snps_indels_sv.sites.vcf.gz?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIYDIF27GS5AAXHQQ&Expires=1425600785&Signature=KQ3qGSqFYN0z%2BHMTGLAGLUejtBw%3D

• Download a file and choose thread limit to 2 and max chunk to 5000

TerminalVelocity.exe http://tinyurl.com/cynt8ht --mt=2 --mc=5000

• Set the file output

TerminalVelocity.exe http://tinyurl.com/cynt8ht --f="C:\github\TerminalVelocity\src\TerminalVelocity.Console\bin\Debug\helloworld.txt"

Mono has no SSL certs by default. Easiest way to add support is to do this: sudo /usr/local/bin/mozroots --machine --import --sync

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