[postal2mac] my download failed 3 times already...

[Mark]

Yeah, my download crapped out at 126 megs downloaded.  I'll try later 
tonight, so the traffic is minimized.

On May 22, 2004, at 11:18 AM, Felix Wandler wrote:

> curl also could not complete the download:
> curl: (18) transfer closed with 621172479 bytes remaining to read
>
> :-(
> Its the fifth time i tried to download the beta, tested with curl, 
> safari, internet explorer and co.
>
>
> Am 22.05.2004 um 16:30 schrieb hotblack:
>
>> There are two commandline utilities you can use that should cope with 
>> interruptions better than Safari, curl and wget. curl comes as 
>> default with OS X, wget is downloadable as part of Fink, on it's own, 
>> or compile it yourself from source.
>> Simple instructions for curl.
>> - Open up Terminal.app
>> - Navigate to the folder you want to save the file to, eg cd 
>> ~/downloads/
>> - Enter the following command:
>> curl -u postal2mac:p33p33Hz 
>> http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg -o 
>> postal2-mac-beta1.dmg
>> You can also miss out the username and password and curl will prompt 
>> you for them.
>>
>> If you've got wget the syntax is wget --http-user=<username> 
>> --http-passwd=<password> <full path of download>, so you'd type
>> wget --http-user=postal2mac --http-passwd=p33p33Hz  
>> http://0day.icculus.org/private/postal2beta/postal2-mac-beta1.dmg
>>
>> HTH,
>> ben
>>
>