[plug] wget

Beau Kuiper kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au
Wed May 10 10:29:17 WST 2000


Hi,

It should work if the remote site supports download restarts, and nothing fancy
is happening (redirects ect).

If the remote site doesn't support restart, then there is NO way of resuming
the download. :-(

Beau Kuiper
kuiperba at cs.curtin.edu.au


On Wed, 10 May 2000, russ wrote:
> Not what I was hoping to hear, I thought wget was my friend. :(
> 
> Thanks Peter.
> 
> 
> Peter Wright wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 09:31:25AM +0800, russ wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > [ ... ]
> > > It didn't pick up where it had stopped. Is ctrl C bad for wget? What
> > > should I have done?
> > >
> > > I always start wget with this command line:  wget -c http://.....
> > 
> > -c is the continuation flag, which I think will only "work" on ftp
> > downloads and on http servers that can handle a... damn, I don't know
> > the correct term, but let's call it a "get-range" command. Which I
> > don't think all do.
> > 
> > > Should I start wget without the -c and only use it when I'm trying
> > > to restart a download?
> > 
> > Yes.
> > 
> > But it still might not work.
> > 
> > Sorry. :)



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