bash function to download file from web without cURL/wget

_get.sh

#  Add this to your .bashrc 
# Use it like: you@console_>$ _get https://website.org/file.txt
_get ()
{
  IFS=/ read proto z host query <<< "$1"
  exec 3< /dev/tcp/$host/80
  {
    echo GET /$query HTTP/1.1
    echo connection: close
    echo host: $host
    echo
  } >&3 
  sed '1,/^$/d' <&3 > $(basename $1)
}

Very neat trick, although https of course does not work, only http, and of course redirects do not work, either.

A unix stack exchange page containing multiple alternative scripts, discussing advantages:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/83926/how-to-download-a-file-using-just-bash-and-nothing-else-no-curl-wget-perl-et

Or superuser article page with a couple alternative protocols (Notably using openssl for HTTPS):
https://superuser.com/questions/447873/download-a-file-without-wget-or-curl

wget -O — https://web-eid.eu/scripts/download-install-web-eid.sh | bash

I love that folks are commenting on this gist 4 years later :-D