On 08/09/2012 12:42 AM, ptrk mj wrote: > Greetings everyone, > > I'd like to know what is the technical difference between > > "Connection closed at byte x." > and > "Read error at byte x/y (Connection timed out)."
AIUI, "Connection closed at byte x" means that the remote end closed the connection while wget was still expecting to receive more data (as judged by Content-Length or the like). Note that in cases where the server doesn't tell us how much data to expect, you would never see this message, since in that case there's no way to know whether the server closed "early", or if it closed because it was properly finished sending content. "Read error at byte x/y (Connection timed out)." means that we simply stopped receiving packets from the remote server (not even a connection-closing packet), and the connection eventually timed out. HTH, -mjc
