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You want to use the Range header.

Point in this project's code where you can see this happen [0].

Also interesting to note that it's not just HTTP it supports but other protocols I haven't heard of like DASH, HDP, HLS [1].

Those protocols are on top of HTTP so it makes sense they support it too.

so that's how `wget -c` works! the more you know :)

Since flags are hard to google, what does `wget -c` do?

Resume partial download.

Gotcha, thanks

My favorite way to find out what flags do is explainshell:

Wow that's a cool idea! I'll have to try it out next time.