Any good programs for direct downloading files from website?

[Atlantean]

Just curious if there are any good programs so that when you are downloading something directly from a website and it fails partway through the download you don't have to restart the download? For example if I were downloading a file thats 1.8 gbs from a website and the download fails for whatever reason, the file is lost and I have to restart the download which is pretty annoying.

 

[Schadenfroh]

Roundup review of download managers:

http://www.safer-networking.org/en/articles/download-managers.html

 

[Atlantean]

I am not wanting to download a website, I am wanting to download files from a website and if the net connection dies or whatever I want to be able to resume the download without having to start from the beginning.

 

[Bucksnort]

get right. Great program and 100% adaware, spyware free
http://www.getright.com/

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Bucksnort
get right. Great program and 100% adaware, spyware free
http://www.getright.com/

Getright - I've used it for years, like probably sometime before 2000. Maybe 1997? Paid for it, too.

 

[bruceb]

It is still a Paid Program $29.95 for the regular & $49.95 for the Pro
which looks like the better choice .. I did not see an Auto Resume
feature listed on the web site

I use Download Accelerator Plus V5 (7 is a bit bloated & has features
I do not need) ... As to FTP & Torrents, I have seperate apps for that

 

[xtknight]

It depends if the server supports mid-file downloading (I believe most do with both http/ftp by now).

There's probably a win32 wget port. wget is an awesome console program for this. -c tells it to continue if broken and also prevents overwrites if executed twice by mistake.

wget -c http://server/file
wget -c ftp://server/file