On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Mikael Magnusson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've noticed recently that while downloading a file, if there's an > error while retrieving the headers, the subsequent retry loop starts > over from the beginning of the file. This is independent of options > like -c etc since it's just an internal retry of the fetch loop, but I > was using -c too. The same download sometimes errored during download > of data and then retries were correctly continued after the already > retrieved data. It doesn't matter if it's a "connection reset" or > "read error" or "connection timed out", any error followed by "in > headers" wipes the file. I'm using 1.15 (on gentoo, but there's no > patch to the c code).
This bug is still present in 1.16. -- Mikael Magnusson
