Feature #5825

Retry incremental upgrade downloads

Added by Tails about 12 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

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Duplicate
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Normal
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Description

Downloading target files should be more robust on flaky Internet connections.

E.g. when a target file download times out, it should be retried a few times. Ideally, the download should be resumed using the already downloaded partial content. Possible implentation ideas:

  • LWP::UserAgent::ExponentialBackoff - not in Debian, not sure it resumes interrupted downloads)
  • LWP::UserAgent::Determined - in Debian, not sure it resumes interrupted downloads)
  • code samples that use the Range header when needed

Alternatively, there could be a button for manually retrying or resuming an interrupted download.

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Related issues

Is duplicate of Tails - Feature #15875: Make it possible to resume an IUK download from within Tails In Progress 2018-08-30

History

#1 Updated by intrigeri about 12 years ago

#2 Updated by intrigeri about 11 years ago

  • Category set to 178
  • Priority changed from Elevated to Normal
  • Parent task deleted (Feature #6014)

#3 Updated by intrigeri about 11 years ago

  • Subject changed from incremental upgrades: retry downloads to Retry incremental upgrade downloads

#4 Updated by intrigeri about 7 years ago

  • is duplicate of Feature #15875: Make it possible to resume an IUK download from within Tails added

#5 Updated by intrigeri about 7 years ago

  • Status changed from Confirmed to Duplicate