Mozilla/Netscape and Large file downloads

pavera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 84

I have a problem, I run Mozilla, and am trying desperately to eradicate windows from my network, however I have a small problem. when I want to download an updated distribution (IE RedHat limbo at this point) but really any file, that is large (say like an ISO that is 650MB) Mozilla sloggs the whole file into ram while it waits for it to finish, this crashes my machine, it only has 128MB of RAM and 256MB of swap... so 650 fills the memory, and the computer dies. is there any way to get Mozilla to save a file directly to the hard drive? The lack of this feature in *any* OSS browser forces me to keep 1 machine running windows, so I can download new ISOs so I can update my other machines running linux.

dioxmat · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 8:49 am Post subject:

known mozilla bug.
use wget for large files :)
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lotas · Posted: Wed Jul 24, 2002 11:12 am Post subject:

Try prozilla.

Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

Prozilla's good, and you can integrate it into Galeon fairly easily. (or wget or whatever else...) Just do Settings -> Prefs -> Handlers -> Downloading -> Command -> xterm -e proz -s -P %f %s

pavera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 84

I am trying to download from redhat network (they are faster than any of the mirrors I have found I always get my full DSL speed of 70KBps from them, whereas from most mirrors I get around 10-15KBps) unfortunately this throws a wrench in the works, as I have to authenticate my username and password with their server... I see wget allows you to pass a username and password, however it doesn't work, I still get a 403 forbidden error from the server.
does prozilla allow you to pass username/password? does it actually work?

Pigeon · Guru Joined: 21 Jun 2002 Posts: 307

The man page mentions it- hosts/usernames/pw's are kept in ~/.netrc but doesn't give format info.... I'd *guess* the format would be hostname:username:pw(or hashed pw) but whatever... I'd try their webpage, but it's puking atm. (prozilla.delrom.ro)

BTW- prozilla does multiple part downloads, so you can do the download in 8 parts if you wanted to, and get plenty of speed even if you're limited to slow mirrors.

dioxmat · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 10:10 am Post subject:

wget works fine with user/password.
just put them in the URI as you would do with any browser.
see ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2396.txt
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pavera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 84

an english example of that would be nice

the command I used was:

dioxmat · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 11:23 am Post subject:

pavera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 84

I think its just Red Hat Network...
the link that actually downloads the ISO looks like this:

bazik

Kiff · n00b Joined: 22 Jul 2002 Posts: 73

<useless comment on useless comment>
You're one lucky b*tch there! For 100$ dollars I'd get only 512Mb or so here in Belgium

</useless comment on useless comment>

is that error also present in 1.1 version of mozilla? if so, don't they have a solution yet?

Malakin · Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2002 1:38 pm Post subject:

I've always used gftp for large files so I can resume them if the download gets disconnected for some reason (as opposed to a web browser).

pavera · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 May 2002 Posts: 84

I have seen the error in all versions of Mozilla and netscape....
I finally did get wget to work, the secret is single quotes around the URL
so wget 'https://rhn.redhat.com/all_that_f***ing_crap_I_copied_eariler'
its the ampersands in the URL that mess it up, so just so everyone knows, if you want to wget from a url that has ampersands (in other words one that has received or is going to pass variables in the URL) enclose the URL in single quotes.
and it just works, so thats nice, but it took me 3 days on the rhn-users mailing list to get that out of them...
Anyway, the problem I have with using gftp is that I have a subscription to redhat network that I pay for to keep a few critical systems up to date (I use gentoo on my desktop, because its fast and beautiful, but I've had too many problems with emerge --update system and emerge --update world to trust gentoo yet on a critical server that needs to be up 24/7.) therefore my servers run redhat (my favorite server distro, gentoo takes the cake on the desktop). Anyway, I use RHN to get the latest versions of redhat and test them on a test box I've got before they go into production, so I figure if I'm paying I should get to use their servers to get the ISOs at full speed and not have to search for the fastest ftp mirror at the time I'm downloading... but RHN has issues with all OSS browsers and it took me 3 days to get someone to answer my question about how exactly to use wget with RHN.. so theres the whole story...

enjoy!

rizzo