Dirk Herr-Hoyman wrote: > > At 03:45 AM 6/10/97 -0500, Rob Browning wrote: > >Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> I know ftp reget can resume an interrupted download of a large file. How > >> do you do it from a http-site? > > > >I think, but I'm not sure, that wget will do what you want. See "man > >wget" for more details. > > http is a stateless protocol whereas ftp does maintain state. It's hard to > deal with an interruptted transfer without state. This is similar to what > NFS does to maintain a connection in the face of the server, say, > rebooting. While not completely inconceivable to maintain state with > http, which is what cookies do, this would be difficult.
Hmmm, doesn't zmodem resume a download by simply asking that the file xfer start at a certain file offset, which is simply the size of the partially downloaded file? Then it just appends to the file. I thought some FTP implementations were doing this already. -- ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
