Comment by lrem
5 years ago
Sounds rather too resource-intensive? I've just tried with current Chrome on Windows and a 32MB zip on my personal domain, Wireshark says the file has not been sent anywhere.
5 years ago
Sounds rather too resource-intensive? I've just tried with current Chrome on Windows and a 32MB zip on my personal domain, Wireshark says the file has not been sent anywhere.
I believe there are limits on the virus checking size. You can see this when trying to download really large files from Google drive (> 100mb)
https://developers.virustotal.com/v3.0/reference#files-scan
Seems I might have just hit the limit? ... Nope, 8.1MB zip file also wasn't sent anywhere.
Wouldnt it be more efficient to grab it in parallel to your download?
That only shifts the bandwidth cost between the original server and the user, Google's resources are unaffected. And it's not what GP claimed.
I just checked the nginx access logs - both the 32MB and the 8MB zip files have been accessed only once (both were created only for this experiment).