On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 07:57:08PM +0200, Noèl Köthe wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 22.07.2009, 15:58 +0200 schrieb Noèl Köthe: > > > Some sites or networks fail in ways where a connection drops to a > > > trickle (a few hundred or thousand bytes per second) but does not > > > actually die; this can happen, for instance, if few or no network > > > packets get through but no TCP disconnect occurs. Killing wget and > > > restarting it (always using -c) fixes the problem, but requires > > > manually babysitting the download or writing a hackish script to do > > > so. It would help to have a wget option which monitors the download > > > rate and treats the connection as failed if the rate drops below a > > > given threshold for a given time (for instance, under 10Kbps for more > > > than 5 seconds). > > > > I forwarded this feature request, too. > > Upstream closed the request with "wontfix". > See https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?27077
I've replied upstream with further discussion of the feature. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
