Bug 105628 - Feature: Rollback x KB when download fails on resume
Summary: Feature: Rollback x KB when download fails on resume
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: kget
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 0.8.4
Platform: Gentoo Packages Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KGet authors
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Reported: 2005-05-13 21:19 UTC by Joseph Garvin
Modified: 2005-05-13 21:19 UTC (History)
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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.