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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.
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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.
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