This is a continuation of my previous question which I posted when I wasn't a registered user. As a refresher, I'm trying to resume the downloading of a large file from my Yahoo! web site server when the download gets interrupted. I previously thought the interruption was due to a 100 second timeout limit (because Yahoo! enforces that time limit on user written scripts). However, when I measured the timing of the download interrupts, I saw that the interrupt timing varies a lot (sometimes the download runs uninterrupted for less than 100 seconds and sometimes up to seven minutes). So I don't know the reason for the timeouts and I'm just trying to work around them.
I tried the suggestion by naikus (thank you) and, according to the dump of http header fields, it appears that my Yahoo! web site server does recognize the "range" property that should allow the download to resume at the offset of the interruption. Unfortunately, although the byte range appears correct in the http header in the resumed connections, the transferred content always restarts at the beginning of the file. (My test file is an array of 50,000 4-byte integers that increments starting at 0. My downloaded file always starts recounting at 0 at every offset at which a download interrupt occurred.)
Is there some other http connection property request I should be making to get the Yahoo! server to actually skip to the file offset specified in the header's byte range? Here's the code and what it dumps:
// Setup connection.
URL url = new URL(strUrl[0]);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
downloaded = Integer.parseInt(strUrl[3]);
if (downloaded > 0) {
connection.setRequestProperty("Range", "bytes="+downloaded+"-");