Comments on: Speed Download for Apple Seeds http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/ Bork bork bork bork. Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:17:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mark Dalrymple http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-58 Mark Dalrymple Tue, 30 Oct 2007 13:19:28 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-58 @andrew: nothing wrong with curl. Hell, for the last seed, I used rsync against someone else's image to get that last couple of dozen megs. Like Schwatoo says, connect.apple.com is a PITA to work with curl or wget. I had it up to here (insert appropriate gesture) with incomplete downloads. One clicky-clicky (and twelve hours and change) later, it was done. @andrew: nothing wrong with curl. Hell, for the last seed, I used rsync against someone else’s image to get that last couple of dozen megs. Like Schwatoo says, connect.apple.com is a PITA to work with curl or wget. I had it up to here (insert appropriate gesture) with incomplete downloads. One clicky-clicky (and twelve hours and change) later, it was done.

]]> By: Jonathan Wight http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-57 Jonathan Wight Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:50:27 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-57 *sigh* Andrew, Andrew, Andrew. What are we going to do with you? connect.apple.com is a pain to hook up to curl. It uses cookies and re-directs and all sorts of niceness to make the job of getting it working with curl painful and unpleasant. With SD you just drag the link from Safari into the SD browser and you're done. SD will download the binary faster (multiple connections) and much more reliably. It makes downloading 6+ GB of junk from connect.apple.com painless. *sigh* Andrew, Andrew, Andrew.

What are we going to do with you?

connect.apple.com is a pain to hook up to curl. It uses cookies and re-directs and all sorts of niceness to make the job of getting it working with curl painful and unpleasant.

With SD you just drag the link from Safari into the SD browser and you’re done. SD will download the binary faster (multiple connections) and much more reliably.

It makes downloading 6+ GB of junk from connect.apple.com painless.

]]> By: andrew http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-56 andrew Tue, 30 Oct 2007 04:28:10 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-56 I clicked the Speed Download link and was frightened off by the visual noise. I'm sure it's fantastic, but does it do something relevant to this problem other than resumable downloads, like `curl` plus a GUI? I clicked the Speed Download link and was frightened off by the visual noise.

I’m sure it’s fantastic, but does it do something relevant to this problem other than resumable downloads, like `curl` plus a GUI?

]]> By: Mark Dalrymple http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-55 Mark Dalrymple Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:19:23 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-55 and what's amazing is that he actually talks in Links like that. Most disturbing when he does it in person. and what’s amazing is that he actually talks in Links like that. Most disturbing when he does it in person.

]]> By: Jonathan Wight http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-54 Jonathan Wight Mon, 29 Oct 2007 15:40:47 +0000 http://borkwarellc.wordpress.com/2007/10/29/speed-download-for-apple-seeds/#comment-54 I told you so! I told you so!

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