Re: [Bug-wget] [PATCH] Make wget capable of starting download from a specified position.

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 21.12.2013 um 10:24 schrieb Yousong Zhou <address@hidden>:
> In my situation, wget was trigger on the remote machine like the
> following:
> 
>    wget -O - --start-pos "$OFFSET" "$URL" | nc -lp 7193
> 
> Then on local machine, I would download with:
> 
>    nc localhost 7193
> 
> Before these, a local forwarding tunnel has been setup with ssh to make
> this possible.  So in this case, there was no local file on the machine
> where wget was triggerred and `--continue' will not work.  I am sure
> there are other cases `--start-pos' would be useful and that
> `--start-pos' would make wget more complete.


When I just look at your problem it seems to be easier to set up the tunnel
slightly different and pull with standard wget. If the URL looks like
  http://<host>:<port>/<rest>
and you set up the tunnel with
  ssh -L 7193:<host>:<port> <machine-where-you-called-wget-previously>
and then just
  wget http://localhost:7193/<rest>
the range requests would be sent by wget just fine to the initial server and
you could also safely use -c on further wget invocations (or with proper values
for -t / -T automatically).


Best regards

  -- Dago

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