Excerpts from mail: (07-Aug-01) Range Request by Stefan Saroiu
> I need to retrieve certain ranges of documents. For this, I'm using the
> following wget flags:
>
> wget --header='Range: bytes=100-' ip_address
>
> The problem is that wget mistakes this command with a partial download and
> start retrying it. After 20 times, it times out.
>
> I think I can fix this problem myself, by adding a new flag to wget, to
> ignore the fact that the document is partial. I'm willing to write the
> code myself, and send in a patch.
Instead of a flag to ignore the fact that the document is partial, I would
suggest instead a command line like this:
wget --range=100- URL
Just my two cents...
