From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 17:55:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA17768 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:55:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mistery.mcafee.com (jimd@mistery.mcafee.com [192.187.128.69]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17757 for ; Wed, 22 May 1996 17:55:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jimd@localhost) by mistery.mcafee.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA11069; Wed, 22 May 1996 18:09:10 -0700 From: Jim Dennis Message-Id: <199605230109.SAA11069@mistery.mcafee.com> Subject: Re: Complaint To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Date: Wed, 22 May 1996 18:09:10 -0700 (PDT) Cc: kasturi@teil.soft.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199605222115.OAA05048@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at May 22, 96 02:15:45 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk . . . > Then when you get dropped, use "reget" to restart the download where > it left off. You *could* use "reget" on the file as it currently > sits, without much trouble. I'm curious about this last note. I had never noticed this command before (I got used to ftp using Novell's LAN WorkPlace for DOS which probably didn't support this feature -- or possibly just failed to document it). Is this also support in ncftp? Is it supported in lynx? (I suppose it would have to be "transparent" or "interactive" since I've never seen them listed in the man pages or help files for either of these -- and a quick search on 'reget' didn't turn anything up). I'm also curious as to whether webservers or clients support such a request through http. A friend of mine mentioned that he'd seen something in one of his http access logs that suggested that some client was attemting to specify a byte offset into a file (using something like GET foo/bar.gif:xxxx or GET foo/bar.gif;xxxx -- I don't remember). Jim Dennis, System Administrator, McAfee Associates