It allows you to max out your bandwidth and pull in as much data as
possible. I never really thought it would work till i tried it with IDM
(internet download manager) and had about a 300% speed increase. Then i
moved over to linux a few years ago, lack of IDM has been killing ever
since.

Yes. Note that the content-length (if available) can also be retrieved
> via curl_easy_getinfo() using CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD, after a
> successful call to curl_easy_perform().

Does this mean that after a successful header only download I would be able
to use CURLINFO_CONTENT_LENGTH_DOWNLOAD?

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 10:39 PM, Olaf van der Spek <olafvdspek_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 7:31 PM, dylan <glethro_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Actually the server im downloading from has no problem with it.
>
> It's still a weird idea. Why would using multiple connections cause a speed
> up?
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