Re: [Bug-wget] progressive download feature request

[Michal Tausk]

On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Keisial wrote:

> On 27/12/11 17:05, Michal Tausk wrote:
>> The "--ignore-length" is not taken into consideration, (logically)
>> when using "--continue" as it needs to count the difference in size
>> between the downloaded file and the remote file. However, the file is
>> downloaded only up to the content-length it retrieved on the last
>> invocation of "wget -c".
> It doesn't need to use Content-Length with -c, and in fact -c doesn't
> seem to inhibit ignore-length, so it should work.
> Are you sure it's not the server sending you only up to the length that
> was available when you requested the file?

If you can put wireshark on it, check to see which "FIN" comes over first.  I 
bet Keisial is right.  I bet the server is telling wget "I'm done" by sending 
the FIN.

Hope this helps
pedz

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I can try that, but you are both probably right. Even though, it should be 
doable from the client's side(?). Server can be Apache, but might be some other 
that does not support this progressive feature (I'm not sure which one does). 
So it can still be pretty nice feature. What do you think?

Michal