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
