On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 08:21:31PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 04:08:13PM -0600, Colin Watson wrote: > > 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. > > Thanks correcting me. My total misunderstanding. > > Does squid affect it? I use squid as proxy. Just curious.
It could well do. http://squid.sourceforge.net/squidhttp1.1.htm suggests that squid's HTTP support might not be exactly perfect, but I don't know the details. I suppose, if you're using squid as a proxy, it doesn't matter too much whether APT resumes HTTP downloads or not? -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
