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Resume downloads

Open tobiasKaminsky opened this issue 5 years ago • 4 comments

  • [ ] Android @tobiasKaminsky
  • [ ] Desktop @er-vin
  • [ ] iOS @marinofaggiana
  • [ ] Server @nextcloud/server-triage

Clients should try to restart their download in case of network interruptions, so that a big file does not need to get re-downloaded all over again. As far as I understand this, clients can allready ask server via http range request for specific parts of the file.

tobiasKaminsky avatar Aug 07 '20 06:08 tobiasKaminsky

  • [ ] Server @nextcloud/server-triage

What else is needed here? We already have the Range HTTP headers that should be all that is needed here, right?

MorrisJobke avatar Aug 07 '20 09:08 MorrisJobke

I was more thinking about Web-UI. There is at least on Firefox sometimes the option to resume a download. Is this already working? If so, you can check server :)

tobiasKaminsky avatar Aug 07 '20 10:08 tobiasKaminsky

AFAICT the desktop client already knows how to resume downloads (code is clearly there and does the range request).

er-vin avatar Aug 11 '20 06:08 er-vin

We've opened a request for tender that includes this feature, i.e. resuming large downloads from the web interface with common web browsers. See https://help.nextcloud.com/t/request-for-tender-budget-up-to-75-000-nextcloud-server-improvements/216221 for more information!

uellue avatar Jan 29 '25 12:01 uellue