On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 09:10:53PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > However, to be honest about it, the http fetching is not working all > that well. I have now downloaded the rescue and srcs disks several > times because they fail the md5sum testing on the first pass. > > Is there a way to use an ftp client, specifically gftp to fetch this > stuff? I can connect, but testing.fedora.redhat.com closes the > connection in just a second or so. You can use lftp to connect via http. (And if you're not having luck with testing.fedora.redhat.com, try the Duke mirror. See the original announcement for the URL.) > It (ftp) seems to be a much more robust protocol, it can restart from > the failure point etc, whereas any mistake in the http method > requires a full overwrite in order to restore, at least while using > Mozilla). HTTP also supports resuming from wherever the connection got cut off, and lftp can do that with HTTP. -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>