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sabarishsubramanian 09-15-2012 04:44 AM

Functioning of Download Manager
 
How does a download manager resumes its download when its paused??What is the mechanism behind it??Can anybody explain it clearly??

SecretCode 09-15-2012 08:14 AM

As I understand it:

The download manager records how much it's retrieved, and save this every few seconds / few minutes / when paused.
When resumed, it uses the Range headers for partial GET requests (for http - or equivalents for ftp/sftp) and appends what it receives to the file saved so far.

Not all web servers support partial gets, but the majority do.

See e.g. HTTP/1.1: Method Definitions

sabarishsubramanian 09-19-2012 04:18 AM

Thank you sir.you cleared my doubt:)


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