[Ilugc] some download accelerators
- From: knura9@xxxxxxxxx (Arun Khan)
- Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 14:29:11 +0530
On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Mohan Sundaram <mohan.tux at gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM, Arun Khan <knura9 at gmail.com> wrote:
Can you please name at least one open source package for http and ftp.
I realize for normal web browsing this is possible but for
downloading an iso file how does it work?
aria2c does http, torrents and ftp. Prozilla also does both hhtp and
ftp but has been dormant for a long time.
But these are clients.
After Baskar's post, I checked prozilla but the original site's domain
does not exist any longer.
aria2c - curl can do something similar for http/ftp. It's man page
says it accepts multiple sites which would something similar to aria2c
but I have not tried it.
However, my original query - what server side apps. support breaking
up the file into small bits such that clients like above can make
multiple (parallel) connections to retrieve the bits and assemble the
file on the client end.
Would appreciate if anyone could enlighten us on how it works on the
server side.
In Debian, jigdo assembles the ISO file from the list of package
content for that specific file. There is also zsync which I think
works in a similar to jigdo.
IMO, the last mile bandwidth is the weakest link. I have not seen
any significant efficiency gains in the time for the 700MB odd ISO
files.
With
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Arun Khan
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