Thanks for sheding light on it. It's important to understand what's going on.
ptrkmj On 8/9/12, Micah Cowan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
