Slushba132 Wrote:...wouldn't it just be easier to get a better proxy or to change the download limiter on the one you have?

- There is only one proxy to 'get' which is the official one for my cellular provider; if i do not have this specific proxy defined then i cannot access the internet at all. It also blocks everything that isn't HTTP/Port80 [so no torrent, POP3, P2P, etc] but that doesn't bother me too much.

Chicken Strips Wrote:Is it some HTTP proxy?  Mobile internet?

- Yep.

Quote:Does doing ranged requests work (ie use a download manager)?
How would a Megaupload Premium account work?

- Yes i can use ReGet and other download managers, as long as i set the 'Query Filesize on first connection' [or equivalent] and max simultaneous connections to 1 [i.e. single connection]. This however, does not circumvent the filesize restriction i have.
- Megaupload premium accounts support 'grabbing' files from another server straight to your storage; kinda like downloading right into your megaupload account. Someone told me that the UserCP can then split files that are in your storage box to smaller chunks [probably uses file.part##.rar or some other method]. It does it all remotely for you. I actually found some more similar services, but none for free [i would assume as much, it can be easily abused if it were free]. Bummer

Quote:I'm guessing the HTTP proxy is checking the Content-Length and/or Content-Range header to do filtering.

I assume so yes. On my ReGet download log it never returns the 'real' size/length of the file - just the 624-byte size of the HTML file 'page is too large...' so obviously it is all happening at the proxy end as soon as i make a request for a particular file...


I don't think i can really do anything about it, short of hacking the proxy [no way] because its all happening non-local... but thanks heaps for your help. Guess I'll have to take Slushba132's obvious advice and put up with it until I choose to actually pay for internet access [yeah this one is free with my phone plan :P]

Thanks again!