Hello Volker
>> Also this one fails:
>>
>> wget -O project.html
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617
>>
> However, a second try yielded to the whole file ....
> So maybe you can work around that by trying:
>
> del project.html
> wget -O project.html
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617
> wget -cO project.html
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=23617
>
For my case the -c option of wget is only an intelligent protection
of an already partially downloaded file. In this sense, I can use
it. However, continuation doesn't really work since the URL doesn't
specify the file to be downloaded, but the name of a php script that
dynamical creates the file on the server side. And this dynamical
created file differs every time the php script is restarted.
I am sure now that the download fails only at times when
sourceforge.net is overloaded. So the only work around I can
recommend when download.bat fails is: Try it later, when
sourceforge.net is less busy.
In spite of that I will enhance download.bat shortly as follows:
- It will be more robust and will realize if a download fails. (It
will look for an end tag </html> within project.html since wget
doesn't realize if the download is interrupted.
- If the download fails, it will retry it, where by some parameters
are change every time:
1. The download URL will alter between https://... and http://...
2. Also, the download rate will be limited more and more with
every trial to give the server side php script more time to
complete.
- If it isn't possible to download project.html at all, download.bat
will be able to alternatively use a list of file that resides in a
file named filelist.txt. This file can be created by download.bat
at another place or at another time.
With kind regards
Mathias
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