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What does it do?

Divert is a web based download manager. It consist of an applet (DivertApplet) and a servlet (DivertServlet). Users interact with the DivertApplet on a browser to submit URLs. The URLs are passed to the DivertServlet which will then download the URLs at the webserver.
Downloaded files are stored at the webserver and the download traffic are diverted away from the user's PC.

The DivertServlet is written using Java Servlet Specification version 2.1. This allow you to run the servlet on Java-based webserver like Apache Web Server.

Advantages/benefits

  • Downloading huge files over slow connection take a long time. Divert your downloads to a webserver that has high speed Internet connection. Install Divert at the webserver and submit your URLs from a slow connection.
  • Reduce your Internet connection traffic. Your browser load pages slower while you are doing heavy downloads in the background. Divert these downloads to another location to speed up your browser.
  • You dont need to stay connected for whole duration of the files download. You can disconnect and power off your PC after submiting URLs to the DivertServlet and it will download the URLs for you at the webserver. You can logon later to check on the download status.
  • Share Download files.
    You can avoid duplicate downloads of huge files. In some occasion, you find that a file is downloaded many times, each time by different employee. DivertServlet will not download a file if it find the existing file on the disk is up to date.
  • Like other offline browsers, you spend less time browsing the net. You dont have to wait for pages to be downloaded.

Limitation

Users need to have physical or LAN access to DivertServlet machine. Having only WAN (slow) access to this machine defeat the purpose of Divert.