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comex on March 1, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images fro...

Browsers certainly do resume downloads. Many sites don't honor range requests, though, typically due to passing the file data through some script. And some expire URLs.

DarkLinkXXXX on March 1, 2016 [–]

Okay, I didn't know that. I made that assumption because I've never seen a web browser resume a download that was interrupted.

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