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![]() Actually, the previous system did allow server leeching, which was actually done regularly, notoriously by free-game-downloads.mosw.com:
http://www.abandonia.com/vbullet/showthread.php?t=13204 I'd love that slow connection users could be accomodated in as many ways as possible, but my first intuition is that making download URLs not to expire is inherently a vulnerability. I can't see a way to accomplish both things. I'm no expert either so I may be wrong. If there is a way that users of slow connections could be allowed to do interrupted downloads, it would be by using a download manager that doesn't depend on the direct URL to persist, and at least let you enter new URLs manually for the same file. Surely that's perfectly possible.
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![]() japo.. they meant he leeches reviews and archives from abandonia, not direct linking download links and our bandwidth
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![]() No, both. I thought the same when the topic started, but it appears he doesn't host the files. Like for example this explanation by Tom:
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![]() My first post in this thread came about when I tried to download "Darkseed 2", first using "cURL", then "Free Download Manager" -- which is a GUI download manager. "Free Download Manager" did no better than "cURL" -- both refusing to resume the download. Others might want to experiment with FDM and post their results in this forum.
I have now found one website, thus far, where I can get the "Darkseed 2" download using FDM. A username and password must be provided to initiate the download; FDM can be configured to handle this authorization automatically. So, there is at least one alternative if people are having problems resuming downloads here at "Abandonia." |
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![]() This is just idle chatter anyway, since nobody here can provide an informed, definitive answer. This can be mentioned to Studentis so they give an answer in time--though it's not really prioritary, certainly not right now.
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![]() @t methuselah - as mentioned previously by myself, can't resume downloads from a server that does not allow resuming. i use fdm. used to be able to generate a new link to add a new mirror to continue an interrupted download previously, but no longer works for the games. the 'extras' are not affected at this time, you can still resume your downloads without worrying about adding mirrors or new urls etc.
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![]() No matter how good the programmer is there is always the possiblity of mistakes. So I hope studentis can fix the security issue as the system worked pretty well. I don't think the download system is as complex as the site, so it might be pretty easy for them
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![]() Wait! I have one thing to say, cause you all talking about Internet!
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![]() If we (the crew) gets our wishes, we'll have a torrent-server in the future... That should solve ANY problems with resuming.
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