Re: ftp method
On 10 May 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> >>"Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca> writes:
>
> >> This was not clear. So what does one do? test a file in the ../
> >> dir, and what happens if the size does not match? I reget the whole
> >> thing?
>
> Jason> It checks only the date of the file in ../ to determine if it
> Jason> has changed on the server. The size is never checked beacuse of
> Jason> decompression.
>
> Umm, I am confised, I think.
>
> o) check to see if the ../$file exists,
> if so; test and see of remote times match
> match: Do nothing, (do not check ../file size
> no math: Download ./$file; (never download ../$file)
> else check if ./$file exists
> if so test and see of remote times match
> match: test and see if size is same as remote size
> same: Do nothing
> different, local file is smaller: resume
> different, local file is larger: ??????
> nomatch: reget
The ??? should be reget, and this should not be an if/else construct. That
is, if ../file exists and ./ file exists it should do the first check and
then do the second check.
Jason
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