On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 02:32, Tim Rühsen <tim.rueh...@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 23.01.19 03:47, c...@free.fr wrote:
> > Hi,
> > acording to
> > $wget --help
> > i should send reports and suggestions to this address, so i hope i'm
> > doing right here.
> >
> > the version of my distribution, given by the above command, is "GNU Wget
> > 1.18"
> >
> > and i don't seem to see an option to limit the retrieval to a certain
> > amount of data or a range.
> > is it possible?
> >
> > thanks in advance and happy new year,
> >
> > Zui
> > 201901233
> >
>
> You could set the Range HTTP header - many servers support it.
>
> Like
>
> wget --header "Range: bytes=0-10000" https://www.example.com/filename
>
> Regards, Tim
>
At least for wget 1.19.1, it will ignore 206 "Partial Content", unless
we need to make it think it's continuing previous partial download.
Specifying Range header is not an reliable option in this regard
echo -n aaa >b
wget -c -O b --header "Range: 3-1000" URL
yousong
