Quoting Dan Harkless ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > the file's size). This feature would enable the writing of cool scripts to
> > do something like multi-threaded retrieval at file level.
> [...]
>
> Hi, Alec. You're the second person within a few days to ask for such a
> feature. I've added it to the TODO list.
I would object in this case. While the ability to retrieve only part
of the file might make sense, we sould have in mind that a tool like
wget shall behave decently with respect to servers on the other side
of the connection. I have nothing against starting several wget jobs
to download data from several sites. Hammering servers by making X
connections each of them retrieving 1/X of the file in concern doesn't
look to me as a very good policy.
Has anyone really measured how much can be gained this way, compared
to, say, persistent http connections? I would say that several partial
downloads make only sense in case that the http server limits the
bandwidth for a single connection ...
-- jan
-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
Jan Prikryl icq | vr|vis center for virtual reality and
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 83242638 | visualisation http://www.vrvis.at
-----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
