On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 07:30:38PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Tue, Jan 01, 2002 at 02:07:27AM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 11:59:35AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > FTP can resume partialy downloaded file transfer. > > > > > > HTTP can not resume partialy downloaded file but faster and easy on IP > > > masquerading. > > > > I don't know about the masquerading part but apt-get can certainly > > resume an interupted download using HTTP. > > Resume in 2 sense: > > APT downloads multiple package files using underlying protocol and will > resume smartly. If APT is used with HTTP, it resumes session by > downloading from the package it failed at the first run from its start.
This isn't true. APT's HTTP method has always used the HTTP/1.1 Range: header to attempt to resume downloads from the middle of a file. The only reason it might not work is if the server doesn't support byte-range operations. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
