Date:	Thu, 5 Oct 2000 05:24:49 +0600 (LKT)
From:	Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
X-Sender:	kalum AT goatbeard DOT grendel DOT net
To:	Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Hi
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On  Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Damian Yerrick said the following magic words,

> On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 23:45:44 -0700 (PDT), Nimrod Abing
> <n_a_abing AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> 
> >Or if you are having trouble logging on to an ftp site because you are
> >behind a proxy firewall, you can try using the http sites for download.
> >
> >http://www.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/
> >
> >But be warned, downloading files via http browser can be annoying;
> >when the connection get broken you would have to start _all_over_again_
> 
> IE 5.x at least can resume interrupted HTTP downloads.

Actually theretically *any* Browser should be able to resume downloads
quite easily via the "Accept Range" header, so therefore the fact that
some browsers cant resume HTTP downloads is the fault of the browser, and
not of the HTTP protocol per se.

It is the FTP protocol that has problems with resuming, as there is no
standard way in the FTP protocol to obtain the files size, and also some
old ftp servers dont support the REST command without which resuming is
impossible.

So HTTP is the best and go ahead and use it...

Best Wishes,
Grendel

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