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Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?
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Benjamin C. W. Sittler |
Subject: |
Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx? |
Date: |
Sun, 10 Aug 1997 16:15:05 -0600 (MDT) |
Resumed transfers are part of the HTTP 1.1 specification; basically, a
client can request any byterange from a URL.
As for ncftp, it seems to REGET just fine.
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:
>
>
> On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, John wrote:
>
> > Hynek Med wrote:
> > >
> > > 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.
>
> HUH? Until this discussion, I was 99% positive that resuming an ftp
> transfer was just an official extention to FTP. Now I am having a hard
> time tracking down a document to substantiate my claim.
>
> Anyhow, REGET is an extended FTP command (legal or not) that needs to be
> covered by the server and client. The client sends a reget command with
> the bytecount of where the transmition got stopped and the server resumes
> from there.
>
> > > > 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.
>
> Well, since they have ncftp for Win32...Win95 and NT can resume an ftp
> transfer. I am sure many clients support it by now.
>
> The original question involved a non-free plug in so (apparently)
> http-resume's are not a standard thing. When Netscape/IE support it
> internally or it pops up in a http draft then I am sure someone will pop
> it in.
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- LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/09
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, David Woolley, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Hynek Med, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, John, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Wayne Buttles, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?,
Benjamin C. W. Sittler <=
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Wayne Buttles, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Klaus Weide, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, David Woolley, 1997/08/13
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/13
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, David Woolley, 1997/08/15
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jean-Pierre Radley, 1997/08/10
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Hynek Med, 1997/08/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Jacob Poon, 1997/08/11
- Re: LYNX-DEV Download recovery for lynx?, Marc Slemko, 1997/08/10