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Date: | Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:58:48 -0500 |
From: | Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com> |
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Subject: | Re: recoverable downloads - opinions sought |
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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 07:23:15AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >To do recoverable downloads we need 2 things. >1) A way to check the file, other than filesize, for integrity. MD5 will >do and IIRC that's already caclulated on sources.redhat. >2) Code to pickup partway through and carry on. > >For 2) we can either code it internally, or link statically to something >like libcurl, or call out to wget/curl. I don't understand why we need an external library for this. Isn't this just a simple "start here when downloading" type of operation? I know that the ftp protocol allows this. I'm not sure about http. cgf
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