Resuming download isn't smart.

[Wojciech A. Koszek]

Hi,

My configuration: Opera 10.10 / FreeBSD-CURRENT

I want to stop my download, turn off my laptop and resume downloading
when it is switched on, but from another location. Right now status
of the file seems to be lost.

I came up with a trick, which is basically what some guy put here:

http://my.opera.com/Tamil/archive/monthly/?month=200810

But I've met a case where:
- 100MB file is halted when 50MB were put on my disk.
- download information is lost due to the power on/off changes
- trick presented above happens
- download resumes as expected, but I'm not only seeing 50MB that were
missing being downloaded, but also "some other data" -- 50MB. I expect
this is basically the same file inserted at the end of the initial 50MB
chunk.

Download resuming is especially painful with Rapidshare/DepositFiles --
with PREMIUM
account and cookie present, I can suspend/resume downloads. Unfortunately,
if I logout
of my RS account and browser sends resume request, all it gets is HTML
page which is put
in a destination file. So 500MB file which was download in 95% factor is
is simply
overwritten with some HTML message got from the server. This is really
painful.

I'd like Opera to save the original download info -- File name, file type,
file size etc..
somewhere and at resume time, to see if something is suspicious. For
example, if original file
type was 'application/rar' of size 500MB and after resuming we get 30Kb
'text/html' file,
I want to have a choice on what to do.

--
Wojciech A. Koszek
wko...@FreeBSD.czest.pl
http://FreeBSD.czest.pl/~wkoszek/

[Jan]

I agree with this, would be nice to resume from multiple locations from
both ends.

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