Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust

Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by Too on Saturday January 21, 2017 @10:49AM (#13450541)

Wow, does download accelerators still exist? I remember using them back in the days on my 56k modem. I guess it still makes sense though if your home internet is faster than what the server allows per connection. Usually you don't need it anyway because today most things are already fast enough.

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by k0pernicus on Saturday January 21, 2017 @11:07AM (#13450631)

Hi, I am Antonin, a maintainer of Snatch at DernierCri. Actually, Snatch is a (cool, for me) side project that I began with a collegue, for a presentation of Rust. After this presentation, we decide to continue this project just for fun. We know that we have to improve a lot Snatch, we just wanted here to share it ;-)

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by blockoperation on Saturday January 21, 2017 @11:43AM (#13450801)

Some video streaming sites do the whole per-connection limiting thing, which is annoying when you want to download multiple things to watch later (especially really long playlists).

Normally I'd say that accelerators are abusive, but being forced to download hours of video in near-realtime is such a pisstake that I'm willing to make an exception (the alternative is to download multiple videos in parallel, which is even more abusive, yet less frowned upon).

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by buzzybee on Saturday January 21, 2017 @06:00PM (#13452562)

They're useful for adding continuation and some other features. However, they're also a huge target for malware: potential to tamper with the binaries, discovery of traffic patterns, etc. And they are absolutely clunky as a third-party app launched from the browser.

I use a Chrome extension, though, Chrono. It's been very good.

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by ChoGGi on Saturday January 21, 2017 @10:33PM (#13453449)

I still keep a copy of Flashget 1.73 around, it comes in handy for certain situations. queuing up a bunch of downloads without hammering a server, it also comes with a site explorer that has helped out a few times.

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by chrisper on Saturday January 21, 2017 @12:47PM (#13451146)

I usually use it when I download large files from my server overseas.

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Re:Snatch: A simple and fast download accelerator, in Rust by giarc on Saturday January 21, 2017 @03:05PM (#13451808)

I remember using GetRight back in the 90s.

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