Wget

wget to console

Use the -O - option to output contents to the console.

wget -O - http://google.ca

Since the contents go to stdout, you can pipe it to a shell to execute remote commands:

wget -O - http://scripthost.local/fix_graphics.sh

Note: This is equivalent to using just curl http://google.ca.

Save to Directory

Use the -P to specify the prefix of the output file.

wget -P /tmp http://google.ca/

Saving an Entire Open Directory

To download an entire open directory from a remote server:

wget -np -r http://server/remote/dir

wget on FreeBSD

wget is available in ports under ftp/wget. If you don't want to compile it, you could just use fetch (1) to download files.