Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It would be neat if wwwoffle could continue partial downloads (on the
> next call, and not regetting any already gotten portions), perhaps
> automatically optionally.
>
> Currently one must use wget to resume a wwwoffle partial download,
> this time not requesting the remainder thru wwwoffle (wget -Y off -c),
> and then using wwwoffle-write to write it back into wwwoffle :-(
WWWOFFLE does not offer continued downloads for several reasons.
There are different methods that would need to be implemented for HTTP
and FTP requests and then it only works for some servers and
intermediate proxies. There is also the chance that the data has
changed in the time between the first request and the re-request.
With WWWOFFLE there could be a long time between the two requests and
the information about the failure of the first request must be stored
(for FTP there is no other way to know if a download can be continued
than to remember the file size and date and only try again if they
match).
If you are fetching many large files that might have failures part way
through the download then WWWOFFLE is probably not the correct tool
for the job anyway. There are many file downloading programs that
will give you a reliable downloaded file even if the connection to the
server is unreliable.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.8/user.html
