Re: Proposing gwget for Gnome 2.10

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 11:54 +0100, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:
> Download manager is useful for more complicated scenarios and "power
> user" ones. That is, when you're downloading things like set of .iso
> files. 
> Downloads like that are large, should be resumable across sessions if
> needed, possible to perform using multipart connections, support
> fetching multipart from >1 URL simultanously, and have ability to add
> new URLs / parts on the fly, not only at the beginning of download.

Why do you need all that? (I'm not being facetious, I really want to
know.)

I'd have thought the requirements for a download manager (in terms of
making big downloads achievable) would be something like this:

* Resumable across sessions
* If you cancel a download then try to save something of the same name
into the same directory, it gives you a choice to resume (this solves
the "I need to change mirrors" problem in quite a sensible way)

Which I would have expected to be simple patches to things like the
epiphany download manager.

What do multiple connections give you?
-- 
Andrew