From c12d5e75221ea5535b923c212bae2f7fe55e19ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: dan Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:20:58 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] [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). --- ChangeLog | 4 ++++ TODO | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 39f86ebb..65fb8191 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,7 @@ +2001-03-05 Dan Harkless + + * TODO: Add a --range option to download only a given byte range. + 2001-03-01 Dan Harkless * ChangeLog.README: Renamed from README.branches and added a note diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 961d76af..8b56f7d6 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ items are not listed in any particular order (except that recently-added items may tend towards the top). Not all of these represent user-visible changes. +* 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