Al Franz wrote: > > Having problems with IE6 downloading large files 50megs if they are > downloaded via HTTP. Failed many times on me while Netscape downloads them > fine. For some reason IE downloads them and they come in twice as large as > they should an obviously corrupted some way. Has anyone else experienced > this???
Not quite a Mozilla question, but no, I've never seen anything like that, and I download all kinds of crazy (and way-too-big) crappola. What I do see quite often is both IE and Mozilla crapping out during such a long download, especially over HTTP. Neither development team apparently has ever heard about the fact that Zmodem back in the Paleozoic Era could recover interrupted downloads, and all semi-modern FTP servers (don't know about HTTP) support resuming as well. Guess "append" is just too advanced a concept in this Visual Basic / Java / dumb-it-down-seven-shades-to-tuesday world we live in. So what I do now for excuciatingly long downloads is use a command-line utility known as wget. Never fails to get what I tell it to get. Oh, and it doens't pump stupid "Punch the Monkey" crap at me while doing so either.
