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Date:      Sat, 25 May 2002 06:00:47 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        "Pietralla, Siegfried P" <siegfried.pietralla@eds.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: is ftp from ftp.freebsd.org restartable?
Message-ID:  <20020525030047.GC14153@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0A91@AUSYM103>
References:  <16649A8D5C73D51183B80008C728EEB7CC0A91@AUSYM103>

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On 2002-05-24 10:00, Pietralla, Siegfried P wrote:
> hi all,
>
> just a quick question. i'm trying to download 4.5-mini.iso from
> ftp.freebsd.org and a couple of mirrors but i get the following using wget:
>
> wget -c ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.5/4.5-mini.iso
>
> $ cat wget.log
> --17:09:58--
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/4.5/4.5-mini.iso
>            => `4.5-mini.iso'
> Resolving proxy....com.au... done.
> Connecting to proxy.....com.au[........]:8080... connected.
> Proxy request sent, awaiting response... 200 Document Follows
>
> Continued download failed on this file, which conflicts with `-c'.
> Refusing to truncate existing file `4.5-mini.iso'.
>
> should i use a different client ( i'm using gnu wget 1.8 on cygwin ) or do
> the servers not support restarting ftp?

You're using a proxy server.  The proxy doesn't support restarting
downloads.  Try without a proxy server and see for yourself :)

It should work like a charm...

-- 
Giorgos Keramidas    - http://www.FreeBSD.org
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