[Feature Request]: Prevent re-downloading of existing packages. (VSC-1742)

[jnms-me]

When downloading large packages, should the connection drop for whatever reason, the entire download is restarted. Even when presented with e.g. a complete esp-idf-v5.4.2.zip in the expected location, the entire file contents will be removed and re-downloaded.

HTTP downloads support range requests https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/Range_requests. As implemented by wget -c, for example. This should be used to continue partially-downloaded files.

Github also exposes sha256 hashes of release artifacts. These can be used to finally verify the downloaded files before using them.

[brianignacio5]

I've made a fix in #1625. Please give a try. This PR introduce the use of range request to continue download from previous aborted attempts.

You can test these changes by installing this VSIX by click menu View -> Command Palette..., type Install from VSIX and then select downloaded esp-idf-extension.vsix file to install the extension.

• esp-idf-extension.vsix.zip

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