The biggest issue is that there are slow mirrors. When I've run my speed tests, downloading the 100MB + download, it can be as slow as 30 minutes, and as fast as 45 seconds on my connection. That is one of the downfalls of using volunteer mirrors.
I don't think that chunking the downloads will help much. For a majority of the users they will be more limited by their own connection rather than the mirror's. This will only add additional overhead and issues (MD5 check will be MUCH more complex, and you will have to take up a lot more HD space, since you need to store the chunks and the final package...). -Nick On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > > > Just turn back from twitter where I’ve seen a tweet mentioning “The Apache > Flex installer is really cool; but it is taking forever to download Apache > Flex SDK.” > > > > And that’s true, it takes ages, worse than that, if you do another SDK > installation, it takes the same time. > > > > I never played with all the headers you can use with AIR to download > multiple parts of a file at a same time, anyone know how to use them to do > it ? > > > > Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Ranges, Age, Allow, Allowed, > Authorization, Charge-To, Connect, Connection, Content-Length, > Content-Location, Content-Range, Cookie, Date, Delete, ETag, Expect, Get, > Head, Host, Keep-Alive, Last-Modified, Location, Max-Forwards, Options, > Origin, Post, Proxy-Authenticate, Proxy-Authorization, Proxy-Connection, > Public, Put, Range, Referer, Request-Range, Retry-After, Server, TE, Trace, > Trailer, Transfer-Encoding, Upgrade, URI, User-Agent, Vary, Via, Warning, > WWW-Authenticate, x-flash-version. > > > > The other trick would be to keep a cache of all downloaded stuffs in the > application folder to avoid downloading again in case the user wants > another > version installed. > > > > Any thoughts and volunteers ? > > > > -Fred > >
