Bug 105628

Summary: Feature: Rollback x KB when download fails on resume
Product: [Applications] kget Reporter: Joseph Garvin <k04jg02>
Component: generalAssignee: KGet authors <kget>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: 0.8.4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Joseph Garvin 2005-05-13 21:19:42 UTC 
Version:           0.8.4 (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.3 
OS:                Linux

Often on poor quality connections, downloads can become corrupted with download managers like Kget when they try to resume a download. This is because the last say 20KB or so of what was downloaded was actually garbage (garbage perhaps responsible for why the download stopped in the first place). For the poor dial up users out there, it'd be nice if Kget, like other popular download managers (Getright and Download Accelerator for windows come to mind) had an advanced option for specifying a number of Kb to roll backwards when resuming a download.

For example, if I am downloading a 120KB file, and the download disconnects at 80KB, rather than resuming right at 80KB, backing up and resuming at say 70KB if the new setting were set to 10.