Dan Price wrote:
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.
I think the surprising difference for users is that typically, most
applications download data first, and then verify later. Since we
verify as we download, progress tracking gets weird.
I think it wouldn't be as confusing if the user knew *why* the progress
was rolling back, and I believe johansen has some ideas on that, but
from what he's told me, it's quite difficult to solve.
--
Shawn Walker
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