BSDInstall: I want the bikeshed painted plaid

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Tue Jan 4 16:56:46 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 08:43:37PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 14:39:40 -0600
> Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> > That's a good point. I was planning on using libfetch's restart
> > feature for this case. Do you think that would be unreliable?
> 
> I'm not sure enough servers support it that you could rely on it.

I'd be pretty surprised if you could find a a non-toy http server that
didn't support ranged gets.  FTP support should be similar since restart
has been at least moderately common as long as I've been on the internet
(since the early 90s).

-- Brooks
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