how to resume an interrupted download

Question

I\'m trying to download a large file from my Yahoo! web site server which apparently is setup (not by me) to disconnect downloads if they are not completed within 100 second

Answer 1

Try using a "Range" request header:

// Open connection to URL.
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();

// Specify what portion of file to download.
connection.setRequestProperty("Range", "bytes=" + downloaded + "-");
// here "downloaded" is the data length already previously downloaded.

// Connect to server.
connection.connect();

Having done that, you can seek at a given point (just before the length of your download data, say X) and start writing the newly downloaded data there. Be sure to use the same value X for the range header.

Details about 14.35.2 Range Retrieval Requests

More details and source code can be found here