Re: Wget suggestion (not patch)

Poromenos <[email protected]> writes:

> I recently downloaded and tried Wget, and found it to be a great
> program. I have one suggestion though; it would be nice if we could
> specify a range to be downloaded (via a --range=1309-2923
> commandline option, for example). This would enable users to get a
> few corrupt bytes from a large file they downloaded, or (more
> importantly) allow wget frontends to run multiple threads
> simultaneously to download different file segments
> (wget-1.9.1b.zip.1, wget-1.9.1b.zip.2, etc) and then join them all
> in one big file when they are done downloading.

I agree.  Something like this might go into the next release.  The
supported syntax will be --range=from-to (inclusive) or
--range=from:to (exclusive, Python-style).

But please note that this mailing list is for actual patches, not for
suggestions!