On 2010-08-26 21:27, Josef Wolf wrote:
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 04:03:00PM +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Caveat: it requires that the metalink metadata contains error correction blocks. The DVD links at suse do. The system works by redownloading a bad block, and the dvd link has 129 such blocks of ~33 MB.
With a wrong Content-Length header, all chances are gone, IMHO.
Indeed... Perhaps if you find an http downloader that works in smaller chunks. I mean: download 1MB starting at 123MB. If I'm interpreting the problem correctly.
Once a download is bad, probably rsync is more efficient at correcting it. Do we have this info easily found in the wiki, near the download page?
A torrent downloader can also correct it.
But what do you do if your only access is HTTP via proxy?
Cry? :-( Go outside to an Internet Café, download it there, and pass the expenses to the company? -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar))