20 Sep
2001
20 Sep
'01
10:58 p.m.
On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, John Woodard wrote:
When I use that `other' os I have a small utility (Gozilla!) that resumes http downloads if I loose my connection. Is there some way of doing the same in Linux? I know that ftp clients do the same but if I download over http I'd quite like the same facility.
wget can do this with the -c option. for example wget -c http://foobarred.com/reallybigfile.tar.gz would do the job, but it will only work if the webserver supports resumed downloads (apparently with the range header). man wget has the full instructions HTH Adam -- This message is Copyleft - all rights reversed Adam