High Performance solutions are needed to do things like urlretrieve

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David wrote:
> urlretrieve works fine.  However, when file size get very large.  It
> goes on forever, and even fails.
> 
> For instance, one of download .zip file is of 363,096KB.
> 
> Particularly, when trying to get, with urlretrieve, a zipped folder of
> a very large size, it could take up to 20 to 30 minutes.  Often it
> fails, never any problem with smaller folders.  Any solution for this?
> 
Do you have any control over the other end? If yes, then you could try
transferring it in multiple chunks.