Resume downloads
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client: 💻 desktop
client: 🤖🍏 mobile
feature: dav
feature: files
hotspot: file transfer performance
overview
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- PHP
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Description
- Android @tobiasKaminsky
- Desktop @er-vin
- iOS @marinofaggiana
- Server @nextcloud/server-triage
Clients should try to restart their download in case of network interruptions, so that a big file does not need to get re-downloaded all over again.
As far as I understand this, clients can allready ask server via http range request for specific parts of the file.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Review the Android, Desktop, iOS, and Server work items in the issue, starting with each client’s interrupted-download handling and the server’s HTTP range-request support. Done means downloads resume after network interruptions without restarting the entire file, with the behavior addressed across the listed clients and server.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, ios
- Domain
- backend-api-design, cloud
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100