From owner-freebsd-sysinstall@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 4 16:56:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF629106564A; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:56:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [69.66.77.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C8568FC0A; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:56:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p049SAIo020866; Tue, 4 Jan 2011 03:28:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p03Jtsq2040059; Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:55:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:55:54 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Bruce Cran Message-ID: <20110103195554.GA39958@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <4D20C8BF.701@freebsd.org> <20110102203548.000052e8@unknown> <4D20E28C.4090907@freebsd.org> <20110102204337.0000324f@unknown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="T4sUOijqQbZv57TR" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110102204337.0000324f@unknown> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:28:55 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, Nathan Whitehorn , freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid X-BeenThere: freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Sysinstall Work List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:56:46 -0000 --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 08:43:37PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:39:40 -0600 > Nathan Whitehorn wrote: >=20 > > That's a good point. I was planning on using libfetch's restart > > feature for this case. Do you think that would be unreliable? >=20 > I'm not sure enough servers support it that you could rely on it. I'd be pretty surprised if you could find a a non-toy http server that didn't support ranged gets. FTP support should be similar since restart has been at least moderately common as long as I've been on the internet (since the early 90s). -- Brooks --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFNIinJXY6L6fI4GtQRAtNaAJ9L/P3JBTd5qI0KTL+Y8FF0XltlOQCfVrKC 8n1sf1dyPCQ+vAznePdrZXQ= =Nj9c -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --T4sUOijqQbZv57TR--