id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	launchpad_bug
288	resumption of interrupted downloads	warner	warner	"It would be nice if file downloads that were interrupted (by a network flap) could be resumed without losing all the previous download progress.

The first step is to implement seek() in the !IDownloadable interface.

The second step is to figure out how exactly users would want to exercise this. It depends upon which interface they're using, as we need somewhere to put the partially-downloaded file.

One likely answer is that we should implement the HTTP ""Content-Range"" header, since then a web browser doing a file download is likely to notice the partially-downloaded data and ask for just the remaining segment.
"	enhancement	new	major	soon	code-encoding	0.7.0		download partial usability random-access