Re: Downloading huge files with Mozilla?
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:14:24 -0800
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net> wrote:
> Do you think some user's might try to open the file before the >
> download is complete?
Yes. Many people do. For good reason, usually. I mean, you can start
reading a .txt before it's done downloading. You can extract any number
of archives in an incomplete manner, and work with what you have.
> What if the download fails to finish?
That's exactly why it *should* download to the final destination.
There's no way, short of doing a 'file' on all of the possible files, to
know which file Mozilla half-downloaded is. And if you are downloading
two tar.gz's, it'll be hard to differentiate them. How, then, do you
resume the downloads? Can you do with with Mozilla? Maybe. But it sure
is a bitch if you try with anything else.
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