Alle 17:28, marted� 11 gennaio 2005, hai scritto: > On Tue, 11 Jan 2005, Leonid wrote: > > curl does not survive losing connection. Since the probability to lose > > connection when you download 2Gb+ files is very high even if you have a > > fast connection, > > This mailing list is for wget, not curl. We can talk about what curl does > and does not on the curl mailing list.
now, that's very funny indeed. aren't you the guy that keeps answering "wget doesn't do that, but you can use curl instead" when someone asks on this list for a feature wget does not support yet? ;-) > It _does_ support request retrying and it does support download resuming - > it is however not a wget clone. Besides, curl already supports large file > transfers portably. Wget does not. oh, come on. let's not fall to the "my software is better than yours" childish attitude. i have a very good opinion of curl, and the only reason for which i don't use it is that i have been using wget for more than 7 years and it has always satisfied all my needs. well, i also don't share your negative opinion on GPL, but that's just a personal point of view and has nothing to do with the (very good) quality of your software. this said, i don't have anything against sharing information and talking about design and programming practices with you and the curl developers in this or in the curl mailing list UNLESS THIS GENERATES STUPID FLAME WARS. i don't like "my software is better than yours" flame wars. i think they're pathethic and i will not tolerate them on this list. instead, i strongly encourage positive information and experience sharing, so that we could work on both the wget and curl software and make this already excellent tools even better. i hope you agree with me on this point, daniel. > In general, TCP connections _are not_ likely to disconnect no matter how > much data you transfer, it is only likely to happen if you have shaky > network setup. very right. but this does not mean that TCP connections don't break ;-) -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute of Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
