Re: Distros (byte-ranging)

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:37:09AM +0000, mike808@users.sourceforge.net wrote:
> I don't know of any HTTP clients that support partial downloads for arbitrary
> URLs via the user interface. Does Mozilla? No. Does IE? No. Does Opera? No. Does
> Lynx? No.

Does wget?  Yes.  Does (e)links?  I think so.  Does curl?  Yes.  I'm
sure there are others.

I would hope that given a URL for a large file, any sane person would
use something like wget to download it, not a browser (which wasn't
made for downloading files).

Steve
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