From 06718d888b29a0c26d96e048aff6f393fc3e2f43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: hniksic Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 03:15:56 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [svn] Document new implementation of continuing partial downloads. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f7244d75..f4504163 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ use of IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. ** Talking to SSL servers over proxies now actually works. +** Wget no longer truncates partially downloaded files when download +has to start over because the server doesn't support Range. Instead, +with such servers Wget now simply ignores the data up to the byte +where the last attempt left off, and only then continues appending to +the file. That way the downloaded file never shrinks, and "start +over" retries work correctly even when downloading to stdout. + ** The `--header' option can now be used to override generated headers. For example, `wget --header="Host: foo.bar" http://127.0.0.1' tells Wget to connect to localhost, but to specify -- 2.39.2