Continuing website download

[asclepius]

Hi all,

Just wondering if isilox is able to resume downloading a website if it is interrupted by, say, an internet disconnection?

thanks,

asclepius

[iSilo]

No, it is not.

[tl47]

Hi, coming (I just moved) from a place where even the most expensive internet dial-up plans still disconnects after 4 hours... I am interested to know if isilox will be supporting this in future versions. It wasn't a problem in the past because I didn't care how long I was online... although I was miffed when it did fail because the internet was interrupted for one or another reason (wifi not reliable... maybe microwave went on or something). Anyway, let me know!

[Voltage Spike]

I happen to subscribe to the Unix philosophy: Each tool should do one thing very well.

In your case, I would recommend a tool designed for downloading web sites. (I cannot offer any suggestions because I do not know anything about your system or setup.) You could then point iSilo towards your copy of the web site on your hard drive.

Note that there are additional advantages to this setup. The primary benefit to you is that any decent "web sucker" supports time stamps. This means your web sites will actually download faster since the tool is intelligent enough to only grab new items (iSilo does not do this). The tool may also provide predefined filters to eliminate advertisements. While iSilo does offer this option, you must define the rules by hand on a per-document basis.

Look around. As you can tell, you are not the first person to ask for such a feature. Personally, I would prefer that the developers support the existing product and develop new features rather than repeating the work done by hundreds before them.