Re: download manager could use improvement,

[Lee Revell <rlrevell joe-job com>]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 22:33 +0100, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Lee Revell wrote:
> 
> > Argh, are you f**king kidding me?  "Pause" doesn't even resume the 
> > download *within the same session* - it redownloads the whole file! 
> > Why is it called "Pause" not "Cancel"?
> 
> I *think* that some http/ftp servers don't support pause/resume. As far 
> as I know, Pause does work, I've used it in the past.
> 

Yeah I was just going by that bug report, I guess it was wrong.

It seems like most servers do support ranged downloads - I can't
remember the last time that wget failed to resume.

Lee