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Resuming HTTP downloads in Win32

From: pg smith <pete_at_linuxbox.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2005 09:11:11 -0700 (PDT)

Hello,

When launching curl with the -C - switch to attempt to resume download of
an existing file, all works well: curl currently finds the offset, and
resumes. However, in the following scenario, there seem to be problems:

* curl launched with values for --retry and --retry-delay
* download of large file starts
* network goes down briefly
* curl retries

In this situation, curl continues writing at the end of the file, but the
download starts from the beginnning again.

Cheers,
Pete
Received on 2005-05-20