Large Download Timing Out (Safari)

Cpgnition

Hello.

I am attempting to download the iPhone SDK (1.7 GB) from Apple on a connection that goes no faster than 14 KB/S. (About 40 hours to download) The problem is that you need to be logged in to Apple's Dev Center to download the file, and it automatically logs you out after 10 minutes of inactivity. The download continues for a while (usually several hours), but then stops, and Safari thinks that it is completed, so it caps of the file and doesn't allow me to "resume" downloading. I suspect that the download stops because of the Dev Center getting logged out.

So, my question is this: How can I download this file? Is there a download manager that will allow me to resume after the download kills itself? Or is there a way to keep the Dev Center page refreshing automatically so I don't get logged out? (Automator?)

I've been working on downloading this file for the last 6 days, and once got so far as 1.5 GB before it dropped (leaving me with an incomplete and useless file). Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

proXimity

Have you tried using a different browser, such as Firefox or another Webkit-based browser that are so easy to find for the Mac?
What about the possibility of somehow finding a torrent of it, or downloading it somewhere else onto a flash drive?

Cpgnition

proXimity wrote: »

Have you tried using a different browser, such as Firefox or another Webkit-based browser that are so easy to find for the Mac?
What about the possibility of somehow finding a torrent of it, or downloading it somewhere else onto a flash drive?

Hmm, yeah, I'll try using Firefox, I hadn't considered that.

Unfortunately the network I'm on blocks torrent ports, and I'm in the Middle East so there isn't a faster internet connection available.

I appreciate the input!

ApexMirage

Here's a firefox addon that reloads pages every X amount of time

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

Cpgnition

Great, thanks Apex!