it seems that SRA is using the fasp: protocol to deliver data, at, say

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Traces/sra/sra.cgi?cmd=show&f=faspftp_experiments&m=downloads&s=experiments

for example:

fasp://
anonftp@ftp-private.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:22/sra/static/SRX000/SRX000571/SRR002321.fastq.gz

there is an aspera plugin for firefox that works, but it would be nice to
run from the command line.  there
seems to be something coming out of aspera, asperawebget, but it is not
clear how to obtain it.  i don't
want to request a trial version/be contacted by a salesperson.  anyone get
around this?

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