JTK wrote:
>
> 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.
In the Walt Disney classic Bambi, do you happen to recall the advice
that Thumper was given by his father? Rather good advice I think.
Chuck
--
... The times have been,
That, when the brains were out,
the man would die. ... Macbeth
Chuck Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED]
