In my experience the download is pretty fast... It's the MD5 check that's taking a long time. Can you check which step is taking the longest?
EdB On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 5:16 PM, Frédéric THOMAS <webdoubl...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > > > Just turn back from twitter where I’ve seen a tweet mentioning “The Apache > Flex installer is really cool; but it is taking forever to download Apache > Flex SDK.” > > > > And that’s true, it takes ages, worse than that, if you do another SDK > installation, it takes the same time. > > > > I never played with all the headers you can use with AIR to download > multiple parts of a file at a same time, anyone know how to use them to do > it ? > > > > Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding, Accept-Ranges, Age, Allow, Allowed, > Authorization, Charge-To, Connect, Connection, Content-Length, > Content-Location, Content-Range, Cookie, Date, Delete, ETag, Expect, Get, > Head, Host, Keep-Alive, Last-Modified, Location, Max-Forwards, Options, > Origin, Post, Proxy-Authenticate, Proxy-Authorization, Proxy-Connection, > Public, Put, Range, Referer, Request-Range, Retry-After, Server, TE, Trace, > Trailer, Transfer-Encoding, Upgrade, URI, User-Agent, Vary, Via, Warning, > WWW-Authenticate, x-flash-version. > > > > The other trick would be to keep a cache of all downloaded stuffs in the > application folder to avoid downloading again in case the user wants another > version installed. > > > > Any thoughts and volunteers ? > > > > -Fred > -- Ix Multimedia Software Jan Luykenstraat 27 3521 VB Utrecht T. 06-51952295 I. www.ixsoftware.nl
