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Re: Does libcurl support chunking of downloads?

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 17:41:00 +0100 (MET)

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, James Yang wrote:

> Following the examples packaged with curl, I was able to create a program
> that can download a file based on an URL. However, if the file is big,
> it'd be nice to be able to open multiple streams, each one downloading the
> file at different parts, and then combine them back after the download to
> create the original file. Is this even possible?

Nothing prevents you from getting the same file using multiple threads (or
even the multi interface) using different ranges for each.

Possible indeed. Sensible, I don't know.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2002-11-25