SPUG: Perl Download Manager

[Parr, Ryan]

I was always under the impression that downloads can be resumed only if it
comes from an FTP site which supports resumable downloads. Perhaps your
download manager should utilise Net::FTP as well which supports resumable
downloads:

$ftp->get('/pub/download.gif','/tmp/download1234.gif',(stat
'/tmp/download1234.gif')[7]);

I could just be behind the times on this though.

-- Ryan


-----Original Message-----
From: c k [mailto:thasone at yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 2:38 PM
To: spug-list at pm.org
Subject: SPUG: Perl Download Manager


Anybody have suggestions for creating a download
manager in perl?

I've done work before using libwww (to download
stuff), but I don't know how to got about resuming a
broken download.  I'm stumped on that and I don't know
why.  Maybe I haven't read the libwww docs enough or
haven't searched long and hard enough for free
available source code.

I'm using Go!Zilla, a "free" download manager right
now, but it's spyware.  I don't like that.  I keep
using it because I haven't found another program that
can replace it (that also isn't spyware and is free).

Any suggestions is greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

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