On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Mohan Sundaram <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Can you please name at least one open source package for http and ftp. >> I realize for normal web browsing this is possible but for >> downloading an iso file how does it work? > > aria2c does http, torrents and ftp. Prozilla also does both hhtp and > ftp but has been dormant for a long time. >
But these are clients. After Baskar's post, I checked prozilla but the original site's domain does not exist any longer. aria2c - curl can do something similar for http/ftp. It's man page says it accepts multiple sites which would something similar to aria2c but I have not tried it. However, my original query - what server side apps. support breaking up the file into small bits such that clients like above can make multiple (parallel) connections to retrieve the bits and assemble the file on the client end. Would appreciate if anyone could enlighten us on how it works on the server side. In Debian, jigdo assembles the ISO file from the list of package content for that specific file. There is also zsync which I think works in a similar to jigdo. IMO, the last mile bandwidth is the weakest link. I have not seen any significant efficiency gains in the time for the 700MB odd ISO files. With -- Arun Khan Sent from my non-iphone/non-android device (অরুণ খান্/अरुण खान) _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
