recursive_wget.sh

# password required
wget -r -l1 --no-parent --user=user --password=password http://server.server.edu/path/to/files/

# no password required
wget -r -l1 --no-parent --no-check-certificate https://server.server.edu/path/to/files

# If ftp server, with user and password required:
wget -r --user XXX --password XXX ftp://1234.5678.10

# Login to ftp server, 
# navigate and change directories
# mget to copy multiple files from the remote server to your local server. 
# (Although, this will sometimes take longer than wget for some reason.) 
# (The -P 2121 is optional, leave it out if you don’t know the port.)

ncftp -u XXX -p XXX -P 2121 server.server.edu
cd /path/to/files
ls
mget *