Back in 2012 I asked @Erel if the Net library's FTP supports resume (so that you can resume an interrupted download and not start from the beginning). We had a discussion and various things were tried, you can see it from page 3 onward:
We concluded it couldn't be done with that library. @warwound then made a custom version based on v1.52 that had FTP resume capabilities, called NetExtras:
Over the years it has worked well though we found some issues we had to work around.
We have not updated to the latest Net library fearing we will lose the FTP resume ability.
So my questions are:
New Net library - Android FTP, SMTP and POP3
The Net library supports FTP, SMTP and POP3 protocols. This library replaces the FTP library. Both regular connections and SSL connections are supported. SMTP - Allows to directly connect to SMTP mail servers and send mails, including Html messages and attachments. POP3 - Allows to directly...
We concluded it couldn't be done with that library. @warwound then made a custom version based on v1.52 that had FTP resume capabilities, called NetExtras:
[lib] NetExtras
Here's a library i want to share with other members, original developed for forum member Biometrics. NetExtras contains a new object FTPResume: In order to use NetExtras you have to also include the official b4a Net library in you project. NetExtras is based on version 1.52 of the b4a Net...
Over the years it has worked well though we found some issues we had to work around.
We have not updated to the latest Net library fearing we will lose the FTP resume ability.
So my questions are:
- Is FTP resume supported in Net library 1.81?
- Is there a new version of NetExtras?
- Is Net library 1.81 compatible with NetExtras 1.52?
- Do we need to have both Net and NetExtras selected in Libraries Manager?
- Is there another FTP library that supports resume?
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