True. wget is a bit more powerful and I'd use it instead if you need to grab a bunch of different files from a web server and want to filter out anything other than .htm or .html files. Here's an example I used recently:
I have a server that holds install and configuration files for the linux desktops I deploy and manage. In one of my automated installs, I need to grab the latest NVIDIA driver from my install server. The name of this file is not constant, but it always ends with a .run extension, so I use the following command to grab it:
wget -r -nH -np -nd -A run http://yum1:8080/nvidia/
The options basically say "look at all the files in the nvidia directory on that web server but only grab the ones that have a '.run' file extension." This works since I only ever keep one in there.
