makes no sense to you - yes. make no sense at all - no...
its sad that you just jump into conclusion on something you obviously know little about. .. have you ever tried downloading the RX-44_DIABLO_4.2008.23-14_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin image file for linux? because if you have then you would notice that you need to enter you product ID and accept the download eula before download can commerce. and once you start download. it must not be interrupted otherwise it wont resume till you go back and redo the whole product id and Eula acceptance thingie. ... My problem was my internet connection is very unstable causing the download to fail and me having to restart from the beginning. even with wget -c it wont continue .. all wget -c would do is download an html file that says you download session has expired. i tried using internet download manager on windows. which is to me the most powerful download manager there is. and the best i got was 90% 4 times but it still failed. i run only linux and all my computers are linux. i dont have any windows box not even on virtual box. ( the windows machine i used was for the school) so irefox3 download manager,wget,qwget,kget, are all tools i know very well and play with. but even they were helpless. my problem was not with the download tool. but my internet connection which kept breaking.
but like i said. i called a friend in china who downloaded the file and uploaded to his server. from there i downloaded it with wget. and was able to flash my nokia n810.