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N.A.N.Y. 2011 / Re: NANY 2011 Release: Partial Download
« on: January 03, 2011, 09:55 PM »@Cyeb, yes I have mentioned about wget on the web site, as similar but not with the partial option. I checked the curl web site but it also do not have this intentional partial download option. Please correct me if I am wrong. I did googled before developing "partial download" application, but could not find one.-anandcoral (January 03, 2011, 11:18 AM)
Well.. Actually cURL does include a partial download, as stated in my comment up there. I downloaded cURL from here:
http://curl.haxx.se/download.html
And tried both Partial Download and cURL on this image here:https://www.donationcoder.com/cssimages/topbanner_website.png
Here's an example on getting 1500 bytes for both programs:
curl https://www.donationcoder.com/cssimages/topbanner_website.png -r 0-1500 > topbanner_website.png
"partial download" https://www.donationcoder.com/cssimages/topbanner_website.png 1500
"partial download" https://www.donationcoder.com/cssimages/topbanner_website.png 1500
Anandcoral, both programs have their own benefits, of course. Partial Download has much easier syntax to understand as well as (hopefully in the future ) the possibility of a partial Youtube video download. cURL provides more flexibility, but is a bit harder to understand.
I hope I don't offend you by posting here, but you know. The facts are the facts, and cURL did get there 12 years before you did. But like I said, your software may open up the possibility for partial Youtube downloads, which cURL can not do, so it wasn't all for nothing! Keep up the good work!