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[much snippage...] It seems that more and more ISP's are using cacheing web proxies between their customers and the internets and many are not configuring them properly. Such proxies often seem to cut files short and then send the same truncated file from cache until the cache expires, whenever that is. And some are so misconfigured as to regard any files with the same name as identical regardless of the source. Unlike Firefox, wget typically complains when an http transfer is cut short but apparently proxies will send the size of the truncated file in cache when the transfer is retried. This bad behaviour is extremely annoying and frustrating, naturally. I've been using a vps w/ squid via ssh tunnel to bypass broken proxies with considerable success. There should be other ways around this without having to shell out extra cash. Flashgot for Firefox is convenient: it spawns an instance of wget, curl, or other favorite util to save links instead of the inbuilt downloader. But IIRC it has not yet been updated for FF4. jd -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org