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Re:Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Micro... by developer2 on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @12:52AM (#11201001)
Unless Microsoft doesn't allow range requests, any half-decent client will happily resume an interrupted download. This includes browsers and command-line utilities like curl and wget.

Edit: Just tried one of the files with curl. They resume just fine, and the download URLs aren't even tied to a session or IP. I copied the URL from my local browser and used curl on a remote server. No problem. :)

Re:Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Micro... by ojii on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @03:59AM (#11201562)
Odd, I could've sworn I used curl when I had this issue a while back. Maybe they changed something or I did something terribly wrong. Thanks for testing though.
Re:Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Micro... by yxlx on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @09:36AM (#11202779)
Remember that when resuming with curl, you need to explicitly tell it that you are resuming.
Re:Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Micro... by DarkLinkXXXX on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:32AM (#11201114)
Browsers don't resume downloads afaik.
Re:Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Micro... by comex on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @01:46AM (#11201148)
Browsers certainly do resume downloads. Many sites don't honor range requests, though, typically due to passing the file data through some script. And some expire URLs.
Re:Free Windows XP-10 VirtualBox/Parallels Images from Micro... by DarkLinkXXXX on Tuesday March 01, 2016 @02:20PM (#11205309)
Okay, I didn't know that. I made that assumption because I've never seen a web browser resume a download that was interrupted.