Hi, > I have scripts which rely on wget to handle knowing whether a given file > needs to be downloaded or not. Normally this works quite well, but in > some circumstances (as I've learned the hard way): The http Protocol doesn't support such a thing. The continue-flag (-c) depends on the file-size only as you have implicitly mentioned. Rsync relies on another rsync process on the other side sending a "rolling checksum" over the contents of the file. Http doesnt do such a thing.
The only thing I can recommend at this point is using rsync or not to use the -c flag leading to a download of the whole thing every time. Cheers, Konrad
