Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited

Taifu Que

Chang Liu

Lei Wang

Rui Li

Haijun Wu

Yinfeng Zhang

Xiaodong Chen

Shuxin Zhang

Yongqiang Zou

Shaopeng Yang

Shengyu Dong

Dayong Zhao

Disclosed are a method and a device for downloading a file. The method includes: when receiving a download request of a file, acquiring attribute information about the file, and learning information about the length of the file according to the attribute information about the file; when the length of the file goes beyond a preset value, segmenting the download request into at least two fragments of download requests; sending the at least two fragments of download requests to at least two data nodes to request to download corresponding fragments, and obtaining the at least two fragments; and according to the at least two fragments obtained by download, obtaining the file. By segmenting the download request into a plurality of fragments of requests, the present invention achieves the parallel download of the plurality of fragments of requests, thereby greatly improving the download efficiency of a file.

Method and device for downloading file

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Guangdong, China

Taifu Que