| ▲ | henry700 6 days ago | |
Not most. There was (and still is) so much locked behind HTTP on poor servers | ||
| ▲ | dspillett 5 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
The vast majority of web servers out there¹ support partial download and have done for years. That the most common UA for accessing them (web browsers) don't support the feature² without addons, is not a server-side problem. Sometimes there are server-side problems: some dynamic responses (i.e. files that are behind a user account so need the right to access checked before sending) are badly designed so that they uneccesarily break sub-range downloads. This could be seen as a “poor server” issue, but I think it is more a “daft dev/admin” or “bad choice of software” problem. -------- [1] admittedly not all, but… [2] wget and curl do, though not automatically without a wrapper script | ||
| ▲ | MisterTea 5 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Many sites also had an ftp server behind it. E.g. ftp.id.com and ftp.cdrom.com were two off the top of my head. Another I remember was downloading high resolution images of Tyan motherboards from ftp.tyan.com. Supermicro also had an ftp server you grabbed bios images from. I dont really recall ever having to download anything big via http. Mostly images, pdf's and small zip files. | ||