CocoaWget

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Level 1

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CocoaWget

Hello,

Does anybody knows how CocoaGet works ?
Cause i was about to download a game demo, when they suggested I download CocoaWget, saying that the demo was "heavy" and that cocoa woud make the download faster.. well, i thought it would do it's job by itself.. loll
Not.
My downloader took the file... i have 45 minutes to wait now.loll
Why didn't cocoa work ?
what information do i have to put in, i to even know those info ?...

Cocoa is a mystery loll

Thanks a lot

eMac, Mac OS X (10.4.6), 1Ghz PowerPC G4, 768Mo SDRAM, 80Go Hard Drive

Posted on Apr 17, 2006 12:13 PM

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Answer 1

varjak paw

Level 10

182,668 points

Apr 17, 2006 12:23 PM in response to Jacinthe

Cocoawget is a utility (actually a front end for the wget command-line program) intended for downloading web sites and providing resumable downloads (which some web and FTP clients do not) so that you don't always have to download a complete file again if the download stops partway through. wget does not accelerate downloads, so a file is going to take the same total amount of time to download with or without Cocoawget. If you were told by someone that use of Cocoawget would actually cause a file to download at a faster data rate, you were given inaccurate information.

You can read more about what wget does here.

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Answer 2

Jacinthe Author

Level 1

5 points

Apr 17, 2006 12:54 PM in response to varjak paw

Thanks a lot Dave,

Wow, a level 5,
you're like a master solver here..

I appreciate the information
Thank you

Jacinthe

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