On Mon 03 Aug 2009 at 03:45PM, Danek Duvall wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 03:08:43PM -0700, Brock Pytlik wrote:
>
> > It makes perfect sense to me why it's done this way, except that if
> > I'm a user, seeing the amount of stuff I've downloaded go down would
> > confuse me. Is there a way we could either change the output, or
> > possibly resume the download in place (at 56MB rather than starting
> > from scratch)?
>
> Assuming that's the problem, then the Range: header is the solution,
> assuming that our server stack supports it.
It depends on whether the problem is a lost connection or corruption.
With corruption, you really must backtrack.
-dp
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Daniel Price, Solaris Kernel Engineering http://blogs.sun.com/dp
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