[newbie] wget / download managers
Hi all Can anybody recommend a good download manager? or can anybody tell me what i'm doing wrong with wget? I've been using wget, but on dialup it doesnt seem to work to well. It's fine as long as I stay connected, if there are any errors at the other end or it loses itself, it resumes great. But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget did nothing. So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning. TIA Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wget / download managers
On Monday 05 January 2004 08:14 pm, al wrote: But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget did nothing. I suspect, based on my own experience with a dodgy DSL router (until I figured out what the problem was) that wget is pretty network aware. If you disconnect and then redial the connection, you are getting a new IP address and wget does not make the connection between the old file request and the new IP address. So, it basically just sits there waiting for the old connection to start back up. If you got the exact same IP address, wget might resume the transfer. I say might because it is possible that the server you are pulling from will time out the connection and then I don't think that wget can restart it without making a brand new request. So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning. If you Ctrl-c, you may be interrupting the shell command but wget itself is probably happily running along in the background waiting for the transfer to start backup. You should try to issue a killall wget to make sure that all active connections are killed before you try to restart the transfer. I usually run wget from a shell script with all my command options included by default, so that may just be me. Then, run wget with a -c (for continue) on the command line and it will resume partial downloads instead of restarting them. By default, it does not overwrite files but will resume if you tell it you want it to. Note, if you have a lot of sudden stops and starts, it is possible for things to get corrupted and for the resume to either not work or actually corrupt the file, only happened to me once when I was doing a lot of background maintenance including messing with the internet connection but it did happen. -- Bryan Phinney Software Test Engineer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] wget / download managers
On Tue, 06 Jan 2004 14:45, Bryan Phinney wrote: On Monday 05 January 2004 08:14 pm, al wrote: But I just had to disconnect to use my phone, and when I reconnected wget did nothing. I suspect, based on my own experience with a dodgy DSL router (until I figured out what the problem was) that wget is pretty network aware. If you disconnect and then redial the connection, you are getting a new IP address and wget does not make the connection between the old file request and the new IP address. So, it basically just sits there waiting for the old connection to start back up. If you got the exact same IP address, wget might resume the transfer. I say might because it is possible that the server you are pulling from will time out the connection and then I don't think that wget can restart it without making a brand new request. So I stopped it by using ctrl-c and started again...wget url and instead of resuming, it started again from the beginning. If you Ctrl-c, you may be interrupting the shell command but wget itself is probably happily running along in the background waiting for the transfer to start backup. You should try to issue a killall wget to make sure that all active connections are killed before you try to restart the transfer. I usually run wget from a shell script with all my command options included by default, so that may just be me. Then, run wget with a -c (for continue) on the command line and it will resume partial downloads instead of restarting them. By default, it does not overwrite files but will resume if you tell it you want it to. Note, if you have a lot of sudden stops and starts, it is possible for things to get corrupted and for the resume to either not work or actually corrupt the file, only happened to me once when I was doing a lot of background maintenance including messing with the internet connection but it did happen. many thanks...just started again at 20% VEEERRRYY helpful using dialup to download an iso at around 700Mb beats starting again Thanks again Brian Cya Shaz Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
