After almost a decade of on-and-off use, I've finally learned
the Aria2 JSON-RPC interface.

I still consider it a bug that it only provides an AF_INET{6,}
socket interface. Arguably, and also for security reasons,
Unix sockets should also be supported.

Consider, e. g.:

$ curl --silent --data '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "1",
"method": "aria2.getGlobalStat", "params": []
}' -- http://ip6-localhost:38534/jsonrpc ; printf \\n {"id":"1","jsonrpc":"2.0",
"result":{
"downloadSpeed":"0","numActive":"4","numStopped":"1",
"numStoppedTotal":"1","numWaiting":"0","uploadSpeed":"0"}}
$ curl --silent --data '{
"jsonrpc": "2.0", "id": "1",
"method": "aria2.tellActive", "params": [ [
"gid", "infoHash", "totalLength", "uploadLength",
"uploadSpeed", "status", "numSeeders", "connections"
] ]
}' -- http://ip6-localhost:38534/jsonrpc ; printf \\n {"id":"1","jsonrpc":"2.0",
"result":[
{"connections":"1","gid":"879f781e664fdb6c",
"infoHash":"2e636b6583e04dbe7e9d4490e43b9eb2fb855c9c",
"numSeeders":"0","status":"active","totalLength":"1176185140",
"uploadLength":"39043072","uploadSpeed":"0"},
...]}
$

PS. And curl(1) should also support the --OPTION=VALUE GNU convention, IMO.

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