Re: Download manager
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 03:11, csj wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2002 23:36:36 +0200
> Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen <ken@fiona-victor.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:17, csj wrote:
> > > On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:16:38 -0400
> > > "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <dman@dman.ddts.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:54:05AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote:
> > > > |
> > > > | Is there a download manager for linux at all ?
> > > >
> > > > gtm
> > > >
> > > > | I would like to schedule late night downloads.
> > > >
> > > > This can be scripted quite nicely with cron and 'wget'.
> > >
> > > I prefer at + gtm.
> > >
>
> [snipping myself]
>
> > Have a look at lftp. Supports nearly anything, bandwidth control,
> > foreground, background, auto-nohup, ssh/scp, and https soon.
> > Its a lifesaver.
> > Kenneth
>
> Can I fire up lftp even when I don't have a connection (yet)?
I dont understand. You cant use program to connect but can run it
disconnected yes? This was probably not what you asked for. Try for your
self
With plain
> wget, I get error messages, blah like "host not found". Another feature
> I find useful in gtm is that it "remembers" the files I've queued for
> download. So I could restart it at the last file I was downloading, etc.
>
so does lftp.
If interested i suggest you install it an check out:
lftp can handle six file access methods - ftp, ftps, http, https, hftp,
fish and file (https and ftps are only available when lftp is compiled
with openssl library). You can specify the method to use in `open URL'
command, e.g. `open http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux'. hftp is
ftp-over-http-proxy protocol. It can be used automatically instead of
ftp if ftp:proxy is set to `http://proxy[:port]'. Fish is a protocol
work-ing over an ssh connection.
Every operation in lftp is reliable, that is any not fatal error is
ignored and the operation is repeated. So if downloading breaks,it
will be restarted from the point automatically. Even if ftp server does
not support REST command, lftp will try to retrieve the file from the
very beginning until the file is transferred completely.
Kenneth
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