Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?

[Hynek Med]

On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, David Woolley wrote:

> If the file is available by ftp (and it probably should be, but is
> increasingly less likely to be) and you are using Unix, the de facto
> position (its actually a protocol violation) is that the standard ftp
> client will allow transfers to be restarted.  I've yet to find a Windows
> ftp client that does this, so I think you should also complain as to
> why you can't restart ftps in Windows.

They say cuteftp can do it..

> Restart on HTTP is a recent bolt on (mainly because people are going
> pure http) and relies on a header that is definetely not in HTTP 1.0,
> although it might be in HTTP 1.1.  HTTP was originally intened for 
> efficiently fetching relatively small documents, where the overhead of
> setting up an ftp connection was too great.

I think wget does some kind of recovery for HTTP..

Hynek

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