Here's my little dilemma:

I want to download a file that is over 30MB; I need to be able to resume
because I have a modem connection and occasionally get dropped by my ISP.
The author of the web page has set up the files to be referred to by cgi
scripts so they can only be downloaded from his webpage, to keep other
people from linking directly to the files on his site.

I thus can only download the file from directly inside Netscape.  If I try
copying the URL and downloading it with wget or any other downloading
program, all I get is a little text file saying which URL I should try
retrieving the file from.  I've already tried manipulating the URL to
refer to only the file and not the cgi script but that doesn't work.  How
can I retrieve under this situation, and be able to resume it?

On this subject, I'd really, really like to know why Netscape
never bothered including a feature as widespread, and specifically browser
related, as resuming downloads.  (And no, that stupid "SmartDownload"
thing that's ONLY FOR WINDOWS doesn't count.  Really, there are enough
shareware and open source resumeable download programs that you'd think
Netscape could have seemlessly integrated the feature into their browser a
LONG time ago.)

-Tom

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