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[svn] Add a --range parameter allowing you to explicitly specify a range of bytes to 

get from a file over HTTP (FTP only supports ranges ending at the end of the
file, though forcibly disconnecting from the server at the desired endpoint
might be workable).
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2001-03-05 Dan Harkless <wget@harkless.org>
* TODO: Add a --range option to download only a given byte range.
2001-03-01 Dan Harkless <wget@harkless.org>
* ChangeLog.README: Renamed from README.branches and added a note

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* Add a --range parameter allowing you to explicitly specify a range of bytes to
get from a file over HTTP (FTP only supports ranges ending at the end of the
file, though forcibly disconnecting from the server at the desired endpoint
might be workable).
* RFC 1738 says that if logging on to an FTP server puts you in a directory
other than '/', the way to specify a file relative to '/' in a URL (let's use
"/bin/ls" in this example) is "ftp://host/%2Fbin/ls". Wget needs to support