At 10:32 AM 6/10/97 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: >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. >
There is a "partial GET" in HTTP 1.1, which would do this operation. Again, I can't vouch for how well it is implemented currently. -- Dirk Herr-Hoyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DANEnet, Connecting Dane County's Communities http://danenet.wicip.org -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
