Hello Ben, On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 18:34 -0700, bnis@fastmail.fm wrote:
Mark Trickett wrote:
When I can locate a resource, some of them do not respond well, and the download manager in FF has a bad "feature" of truncation and no way to resume or tell it that the transfer has more to go.
Had to copy and paste from email reader, your contribution followed two dashes at the start of a line, which Evolution took as the separator before a "SIG" and did not include in the reply.
I have had this problem on dial-up. I try to solve it by getting the address of the download and using wget. I found it more reliable. And if the download is partial, you can complete it with the -c option rather than beginning again. I now mostly use midori rather that firefox.
ben
I have a plugin for FF that will craft a wget command line, and I have used a "naked" wget with the URL and the -c and --no-proxy switches. I have yet to find the proxy on this PC, and have found necessary to bypass. This is how I manage to download my digital copy of Linux Journal, and grab some larger files here and there. I am trying to migrate to a fresh PC, and taking some of my data is not straightforward, I am on several learning curves and finding somewhat steep in conjunction with well past the 20's and a lot of physical work in meat space. Regards, Mark Trickett