Re: resuming apt-get downloads
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 [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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