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Re: LYNX-DEV file downloading


From: David Woolley
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV file downloading
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 08:54:27 +0000 (GMT)

> 
> Has anyone thought of incorporating what programs like ncftp already have?
> 
> Example, if the file someone is downloading already exists (but wasn't
> completed fully), downloaded it from wherever they stopped - instead of
> downloading the entire thing again.
> 

Lynx is structured as a web browser, not a file downloader.  As such the
bit that writes the file is several software layers away from the bit that
talks the network protocol.  Doing ftp restarts would mean violating that
layering, as well as moving the download destination dialogue to the start
of the download, so that it knew the name of the file it was trying to
restart.

Trying to be Swiss army knives is one of the things that causes bloat
in commercial browsers; the Unix philosophy has always been to have a 
choice of tools, so you can choose a file downloader for downloading and
a web browser for browsing.

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