I need Multi-Part DOWNLOADS from Amazon S3 for huge files

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Bth picture Bth · Jan 25, 2011 · Viewed 25.3k times · Source

I know Amazon S3 added the multi-part upload for huge files. That's great. What I also need is a similar functionality on the client side for customers who get part way through downloading a gigabyte plus file and have errors.

I realize browsers have some level of retry and resume built in, but when you're talking about huge files I'd like to be able to pick up where they left off regardless of the type of error out.

Any ideas?

Thanks, Brian

Answer

Uriah Carpenter picture Uriah Carpenter · Jan 28, 2011

S3 supports the standard HTTP "Range" header if you want to build your own solution.

S3 Getting Objects

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