If you're a fan of Plan 9, there's hget[1], which handles HTTP and FTP. It's not in 9base, since it requires a couple of other libraries, but you can get it in P9P. Alternatively you can grab a copy of Federico's Abaco[2] web browser, which bundles webfs and lets you mount the web as a 9P file system and use webget to fetch URLs. That can be a bit buggy, iirc, but it's a neat idea.
[1]: http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man1/hget.html [2]: http://lab-fgb.com/abaco/ Thanks, cls
