Please don't make assumptions as to when I would be worse off, you don't
know me nor do you know my particular situation.
I know how some file download programs work, and that includes opening as
many as 8 or more threads to download a single file across a broadband
connection.. and I don't particularly care to have 8 connections to my
server for one of the large file downloads that I have instead of just
one...
I know what I want in the webserver that I am running, and I would prefer to
keep it that way... and I do not care to be stuck without an upgrade path if
they decide to implement such a "feature" without giving us an "Off"
command... because I certainly would not upgrade to any version that was
like that.
--
Patrick Spence, Network Administrator
Information System Dept.
2401 South 24th Street, Phoenix, AZ 85034
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.vitamist.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Yon Derek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2001 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] Resume download for AOLServer
> > > > is there a way to resume download for AOLServer?
> > >
> > > What do you mean? Do you mean that you want a program like
> > GetRight
> > > or wget to be able to resume a download FROM an instance of
> > AOLserver?
> > >
> > > If so, you can try 3.2+ad12 or 3.3+ad13. I implemented support for
> > > byte ranges (which is how download resumption works) in those
> > > versions. AOL hasn't adopted that patch yet (AFAIK).
> >
> > I hope they dont unless they give an option to disable it...
> > I don't want my webservers to get hammered with file downloads
>
> That is assuming that some random X on the internet will decide to
> hammer you with downloads based on the presence (or lack of it) of
> download resumption in your web server.
>
> I don't think this is a valid assumption.
>
> If anything, you're worse off without download resumption because in
> case of connection drop you'll get hammered again, but starting from the
> beginning.
