On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, I wonder if anyone can help me please -
> A number of my downloads gave the wrong md5sum recently.
> Is there anything I can do to get better results?
I find that using a command-line ftp client and explicitly specifying
binary mode works every time.
To contrast, Browsers like to give files weird tempfile names during
transfer (which complications resume), randomly crash, and have specious
cache handling (i.e., if I click on the iso link and it starts downloading
as a textfile into the broser, then go back and click save-as, is it doing
the right thing?)
> Is there a difference between using ftp to download a file and
> using rsync and with an empty local directory?
> (eg: rsync -avvP --stats
> rsync://ftp.rpmfind.net/linux/Mandrake-iso/i586/MandrakeFreq-20010619-inst.i586.iso
> . [full stop for local directory])
> I wonder if the actual download process of rsync has better error checking
> as it goes along?
afaik, both protocols rely on the TCP layer for that.
One big downside of using rsync large file transfer is that it doesn't
support resume.
-pete
