Re: [gnome-network]Download manager

[William Jon McCann <mccannwj pha jhu edu>]

tapia wrote:
> * Segmented downloads.
>
> The app must allow several connections to a server, or download
> fragments of the file from different mirrors. For doing this, GetRight
> uses two techniques:
>
> 	* Mirror search engines. There are internet services for that.
> 	  Generally it's not very useful, but sometimes allow you to
> 	  avoid a slow mirror.
>
> 	* If you want to download two files with the same name from
> 	  different servers, GetRight look if they are the same file. If
> 	  they are, then it segments the download, using the servers as
> 	  mirrors.

Sounds interesting.  The capabilities sound similar to bittorrent 
(except for uploading).  Maybe it could include p2p support?  Or is that 
a legal quagmire?

Jon