Re: Feature suggestion: change detection for "wget -c"

2006-09-15 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On 9/15/06, Mauro Tortonesi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: reliable detection of changes in the resource to be downloaded would be a very interesting feature. but do you really think that checking the last X (< 100) bytes would be enough to be reasonably sure the resource was (not) modified? what abo

Re: Feature suggestion: change detection for "wget -c"

2006-09-15 Thread Mauro Tortonesi
John McCabe-Dansted ha scritto: "Wget has no way of verifying that the local file is really a valid prefix of the remote file" Couldn't wget redownload the last 4 bytes (or so) of the file? For a few bytes per file we could detect changes to almost all compressed files and the majorit

Feature suggestion: change detection for "wget -c"

2006-08-31 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
"Wget has no way of verifying that the local file is really a valid prefix of the remote file" Couldn't wget redownload the last 4 bytes (or so) of the file? For a few bytes per file we could detect changes to almost all compressed files and the majority of uncompressed files. -- John