The progress bar that doesn't convey any sense of progress (was Re: ...)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Jamu Kakar writes:

 > What I really want to know, which isn't addressed in your proposal,
 > is "How much time is left before I have what I've asked for?".  I
 > think that is, fundamentally, what people care about.

The problem is, fundamentally, that that information is not available
to a pure HTTP or sftp transport.

I agree that it should be available to a smart server, but IIRC it
already is.