On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 13:45 +0200, Nils Philippsen wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-10 at 12:46 +0200, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > > Hi. > > > > seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > If you're not using a site that supports http 1.1 and byte-ranges then > > > yum will have to download the whole package. > > > > You're grabbing the headers out of the RPM files via byte ranges? > > Sweet idea. > > Though it would be even sweeter if byte-ranges fail you would start to > download the whole thing (or at least tell the server that) and break > the connection when you've read the entire header. Still better than > downloading the whole thing. > I welcome patches to do just that but you should coordinate with the urlgrabber authors. Thanks for volunteering! -sv
