Resumable downloads

[mgallien]

When downloading a big file, if the transfer gets interrupted, it would be nice to resume the download from the already downloaded data instead of starting from scratch.

[mgallien]

@tobiasKaminsky

[PhilippSchlesinger]

the same holds true for uploads :-)

[tobiasKaminsky]

On uploads we already have this, right @mgallien?

[mgallien]

On uploads we already have this, right @mgallien?

I do not think so
According to https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.range I do not think there is a way to resume an upload

[mgallien]

the same holds true for uploads :-)

we would already resume properly chunked uploads
for smaller one, I do not know how that would be possible

[tobiasKaminsky]

Right, I meant chunked upload. Small uploads <10 MB can be restarted, as costs for this can be ignored…

[PhilippSchlesinger]

On uploads we already have this, right @mgallien?

I do not think so According to https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#field.range I do not think there is a way to resume an upload

maybe this could work via the PATCH method according to
https://httpwg.org/specs/rfc5789.html

[PhilippSchlesinger]

Right, I meant chunked upload. Small uploads <10 MB can be restarted, as costs for this can be ignored…

Ah, great, resume is already implemented for chunked uploads larger than 10 MB!
And yes, for small files this can be neglected.

[pedlino]

+1
Downloads are not resumable from browser and there is no option to copy a valid direct link to use in a download manager

[nfnfgo]

Is there any update on this lol, it will be good to be able to resume the download at where it stopped last time. Especially when the files are large (several GB per file or even larger)

I'm using the latest version of the NextCloud Desktop, and it seems that NextCloud will create a cache when syncing(downloading) large files, and maybe those cache could be used to support such feature?