Re: [Blocks-development] Resuming

[Blat F. <pet...@ho...>]

>From: "Erik Moeller" <mo...@sc...>
>To: blo...@li...
>Subject: [Blocks-development] Resuming
>Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 04:32:50 +0200
>
>If a download fails and I restart it later, shouldn't Blocks check if
>blocks of the to-be-downloaded files are already in the local cache?
>That way, we could have resuming -- the first blocks would be fetched
>from the local cache, and the rest from the remote host.
>
>Of course, I presume that the blocks of failed downloads are stored
>in the cache.

They are stored, and Blocks should use them when you restart the
download. All Blocks servers always check the local cache before
routing requests, however, looking at the code it seems they only
do this when proxying/routing requests and not when they are
the source of the request themselves. Looks like a bug to me :-)

ttfn

PG.

PS big file support soon :)
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