From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 12 5:28:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from topaz.mdcc.cx (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2EA237B405 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 05:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from k7.mavetju.org (topaz.mdcc.cx [212.204.230.141]) by topaz.mdcc.cx (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4188D2B690; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 14:28:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: by k7.mavetju.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 436DD3CE; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:27:56 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 22:27:56 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Wayne Pascoe Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resuming downloads Message-ID: <20011012222756.L2865@k7.mavetju.org> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Wayne Pascoe , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <861yk9axcv.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <861yk9axcv.fsf@pan.ehsrealtime.com>; from wayne.pascoe@ehsrealtime.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:53:04PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 12:53:04PM +0100, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > >From what I've read, any browser and server that conforms to the http > 1.1 spec should allow resuming of downloads. Well, there is a difference between should and could. This is a feature for the client to initiate, not something for the server. Therefor, the server should support it for sure, while the client may support it. The browsers you've mentioned don't support it, while wget and fetch do. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org edwin@mavetju.org | Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions: ------------------+ http://www.FatalDimensions.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message