I needed to download Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe 5 today. I do not download .iso files so often, so I just naively clicked on the .iso file to download it in Firefox. After 30 minutes I needed to take my notebook to the meeting, so I got idea to pause downloading for a while.
What a surprise, when I got back to the table and plugged in the ilife-giving cable. No resume at all. In 2007.
What the heck, I remember that I needed to solve this on day to day basis 8 years ago, so I remember there used to be some tools to resume partial download. I even put them on my free application list.
Everything changes as time passes by, some mentioned applications are not free anymore.
So until I change the page here is the replacement for all those download managers:
Free Download Manager
PS: I had to go through this only because Firefox cannot resume partial download.
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wget -c rocks! ((=
Or juste use bittorent :-)
I've used this since pre-1.0 days on Firefox, I'm pretty sure - You must have been downloading from a server that doesn't support resume.
Example of me downloading the ISO with resume:
http://img128.imageshack.us/img128/2447/picture2ju2.png
http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2443/picture3cs4.png
If the server doesn't support it, obviously Firefox can't.
dp_wiz thanks for the tip. However wget has troubles with corporate isa proxy.
Nicolas, the same applies to bittorent - I would love to use it for legal sharing of Ubuntu isos, however corporate network blocks that.
Leon, I have tried that from the official Ubuntu servers. And based on the fact, that Free download manager can resume it from the same server I tend to believe that the issue is within Firefox.
I know, that there is the Resume option - it even worked for me until I disconnected the network cable / or switched to wifi during downloading.
Great, Firefox 3 is going to have this functionality:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=377243
Finally!
Chudak Firefox za problem nemoze, povolit pokracovanie stahovania ma na starosti server z ktoreho stahujes. Skripty, co serviruju obsah an stiahnutie musia podporovat Ranges header. Servery normalne zavru spojenie po urcitom case, aby si nedrzal proces. Kazde otvorene spojenie totiz zerie CPU.
Ale mohl. Az ve verzi 3 to poradne dodelali.
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