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Article #4407Re: NS 4.04 and downloading files.
From: Stewart Honsberger
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 00:00
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Quoting a message by forkd4nisse@dtek.chalmers.se (Martin Nisshagen) in
comp.os.os2.misc:
>� > Is there any way of getting Netscape 2.02 or 4.04 to
>� > append to files being downloaded. I was trying to download
>� > OD 2.0 last night and had to restart 3 times after a
>� > couple of megs had already been downloaded. On a 56K modem
>� > it was very painful.
>�
>� Hell, I'd like to see how to do this with Netscape 4.51 (W95), which
>� purportedly supports this...
>
>In Internet Explorer you just click on the same link again and it will
>automatically continue downloading the file and appending it, and I assume
>it's the same for the latest Netscape (who finally seems to support that).
Netscape Communicator 4.0 supported this feature. I'm think previous
versions also supported it, but I only really started using Netscape
seriously at version 4.0.
This person might have been downloding from an HTTP server - not an FTP
server. HTTP doesn't support FTP resume. :>
>However, note that if you use the ftp protocol not every server supports the
>resume command (which the clients who supports it tries to use).
This could also be the case. The server might not support it. {shrug} It
happens.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 10a752,bf141f9d0f3d9e7d X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,bf141f9d0f3d9e7d X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 112d6c,bf141f9d0f3d9e7d X-Google-Attributes: gid112d6c,public X-Google-Thread: 10fb18,bf141f9d0f3d9e7d X-Google-Attributes: gid10fb18,public From: blackdeath@13softhome.net (Stewart Honsberger) Subject: Re: NS 4.04 and downloading files. Date: 1999/04/22 Message-ID: <DIoH3QRK1gpL092yn@13softhome.net> X-Deja-AN: 469377167 References: <7epodf$8h4$1@macserv3.macquarie.com.au> <oBX9ogsQteYG-pn2-OdYf0YtUISdY@localhost> <373975bb.400967701@news.angelz.net> X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Editor-Shell: GOPGP/2 v1.23 X-Trace: news1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com 924746768 24.112.27.46 (Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:06:08 PDT) Organization: http://sprk.com/blackdeath Reply-To: blackdeath@13softhome.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 19:06:08 PDT Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.utilities,aus.computers.os2