Thanks for your response,
I now suspect that it has to do with the HTTP version that
the server supports. I think HTTP 1.0 does not handle ``range''
GETs, whereas HTTP 1.1 does.
Dan Harkless wrote:
> Jan Prikryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>>
>>
>>> How come that sometimes wget does not continue to download a file
>>> where it left off, but starts from the beginning again? It can't be
>>> that the file has changed on the server side because if I interrupt
>>> a wget session and then immediately start it again, it does not start
>>> from where it stopped.
>>
>> I think (but it's not guaranteed) that wget tries a partial download
>> of a file only during the same download session. After interrupting
>> wget manually and starting it again, wget cannot be sure that the file
>> with the same name as the one that wget wants to download really
>> composes a part of that file and that it contains the same data.
>
>
> But it will assume that is indeed the case if you run call it with the -c /
> --continue option.
>
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