posted 22 years ago
skip() doesn't help because in order to skip data in a stream you have to read it in order to skip it. :-)
There is no built-in mechanism to download part of a file with standard network protocols. You can build the service yourself several ways, or find a tool/protocol on the network that helps you do this, but there's nothing built into J2SE that directly supports it.
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