> You mentioned that ...
>
> > However wget, curl, axel, lftp when trying to resume, send the
> appropriate
> > Range Header in HTTP/1.1
> > but fail to get a reply back. They wait for a long long time, still
> nothing.
>
> I am assuming that by this you mean:
> a. You are downloading the files using http (if this is true, is there any
> specific reason why http instead of ftp ?)


because the download (in this case, google video) only has an http feed.
I should point out that cyberoam has blocked FTP for some reason

>
> b. You used the -c (for wget) or -C (for curl) options (I don't know about
> the
> others).

I used them

>
> c. You are trying these clients for the same server that you use kget for.
> Since, the ability to resume downloads require server side capability to
> recognize and accept requests for files from a different offset that the
> start
> of the file.

I tried it on the same files, and got different results.

>
>
> If all of this is true, what is the response you get back from the server
> for
> your requests ?

wget/curl etc. just wait for 5 min or so, then I get bored and kill them.

I'm in college and don't have the luxury of switching providers.

would setting the relogin interval to a higher value help? say 15min.

Thanks

Nikhil
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