Re: [Bug-wget] progressive download feature request

[Perry Smith]

On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:36 PM, Keisial wrote:

> On 27/12/11 17:05, Michal Tausk wrote:
>> The "--ignore-length" is not taken into consideration, (logically)
>> when using "--continue" as it needs to count the difference in size
>> between the downloaded file and the remote file. However, the file is
>> downloaded only up to the content-length it retrieved on the last
>> invocation of "wget -c".
> It doesn't need to use Content-Length with -c, and in fact -c doesn't
> seem to inhibit ignore-length, so it should work.
> Are you sure it's not the server sending you only up to the length that
> was available when you requested the file?

If you can put wireshark on it, check to see which "FIN" comes over first.  I 
bet Keisial is right.  I bet the server is telling wget "I'm done" by sending 
the FIN.

Hope this helps
pedz