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. > GetRight. Now it doesn't use ads because their ad provider died =]
-- Albert "We must have a better word than 'prefabricated'. Why not 'ready-made'?" --Winston Churchill If sending email, remove the obvious spam-preventer from my email address.
