
April 16th, 2002
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Gnutella Veteran | | Join Date: March 14th, 2002 Location: Canada
Posts: 121
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Quote: Originally posted by Unregistered when you download with the same file with multi hosting, I take it that you are downloadind different parts of the same file from multiple locations? Much like a download accelerator? And they are joined when the download is complete? If so, how exactly do you accomplish this? | Yep, that's exactly it. Basically, since Gnutella servents use HTTP to complete file transfers, HTTP itself has a provision to request a range of bytes of a file from a host. The Gnutella client stores each part seperately until it's done downloading and then joins them together after all parts have downloaded successfully. |