Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 20:04:30 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jimd@mistery.mcafee.com (Jim Dennis) Cc: terry@lambert.org, kasturi@teil.soft.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Complaint Message-ID: <199605230304.UAA06121@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199605230109.SAA11069@mistery.mcafee.com> from "Jim Dennis" at May 22, 96 06:09:10 pm
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> > Then when you get dropped, use "reget" to restart the download where > > it left off. You *could* use "reget" on the file as it currently > > sits, without much trouble. > > I'm curious about this last note. I had never noticed this > command before (I got used to ftp using Novell's LAN WorkPlace > for DOS which probably didn't support this feature -- or > possibly just failed to document it). Probably not supported; it's not terribly used for ASCI mode between dissimilar systems. Most servers were UNIX when LAN WorkPlace came out originally. > files for either of these -- and a quick search on 'reget' > didn't turn anything up). % ftp ftp> help reget reget get file restarting at end of local file ftp> quit % > I'm also curious as to whether webservers or clients support > such a request through http. A friend of mine mentioned that > he'd seen something in one of his http access logs that > suggested that some client was attemting to specify a byte > offset into a file (using something like GET foo/bar.gif:xxxx or > GET foo/bar.gif;xxxx -- I don't remember). I know that you can restart at a particular offset in FTP itself; it uses the length of the existing file (if any) and starts from there. I don't know if any of the http tools support it. I doubt it; they'd need a complexity increment to be able to get it. I don't know how it gets to the reget address on the server; if it does it by reading, then autocompress/autotar output will work; if it does it by seeking, then you are probably screwed if you use those features. There's a new ftp working group starting up (they seem to care only about making the list command GUI-friendly right now), but you could join the list and comment. I think the list announcement was posted only a couple of days ago to the BSD news groups and to comp.protocols.ftp or something like that... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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