[svn] Add a --range parameter allowing you to explicitly specify a range of bytes to

get from a file over HTTP (FTP only supports ranges ending at the end of the
file, though forcibly disconnecting from the server at the desired endpoint
might be workable).

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+2001-03-05  Dan Harkless  <wget@harkless.org>
+
+       * TODO: Add a --range option to download only a given byte range.
+
 2001-03-01  Dan Harkless  <wget@harkless.org>
 
        * ChangeLog.README: Renamed from README.branches and added a note

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 may tend towards the top).  Not all of these represent user-visible
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+* Add a --range parameter allowing you to explicitly specify a range of bytes to
+  get from a file over HTTP (FTP only supports ranges ending at the end of the
+  file, though forcibly disconnecting from the server at the desired endpoint
+  might be workable).
+
 * RFC 1738 says that if logging on to an FTP server puts you in a directory
   other than '/', the way to specify a file relative to '/' in a URL (let's use
   "/bin/ls" in this example) is "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls".  Wget needs to support