On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:13 PM, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 22:09:22 +0530, > Kalpa Welivitigoda <callkalpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> I thought to this, whether wget supports retrieving specified blocks >> of files. But I couldn't find a proper arguments to test that. > > --header allows you to add arbitary http headers. I think you can just > add a range header, but there might be some complications. > This time I tried to download the live CD iso $ wget --header "Range: bytes=100-500" http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/16/Live/i686/Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso It keeps on retrying, following is one of the attempts --2011-11-10 16:48:53-- (try: 8) http://mirror.de.leaseweb.net/fedora/linux/releases/16/Live/i686/Fedora-16-i686-Live-Desktop.iso Connecting to mirror.de.leaseweb.net|2a00:c98:2010:1:1:face:d06:f00d|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content Retrying. -- Best Regards, Kalpa Pathum Welivitigoda http://about.me/callkalpa -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
