RE: Does support for FTP growing files work in libcurl?

[Robert Sumner via curl-library]

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From: Daniel Stenberg <dan...@haxx.se> 
Sent: 18 October 2022 08:43
To: fractal.sum...@btinternet.com
Cc: 'Robert Sumner via curl-library' <curl-library@lists.haxx.se>
Subject: RE: Does support for FTP growing files work in libcurl?

On Mon, 17 Oct 2022, fractal.sum...@btinternet.com wrote:

> Thanks very much for your response, and I take your point about the 
> FTP protocol in this respect. However, isn't the reason for having the 
> optional setting CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH to give the caller a 
> way to absolve libcurl of providing this check and saying to it please 
> just give me everything the server gives you on the data socket. The 
> onus then being on the caller to check that they got what they wanted?
>
> As the man page for CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH says, this then 
> allows growing files to be supported, which is a nice feature, albeit 
> one that isn't as robust as for standard fixed transfers. The code to 
> support this option appears in the code base, but it looks to just 
> have one small issue that prevents it working. I took a clone of the 
> latest version and put the small fix in, which then allowed growing files
to work for me locally.

Seems like a worthfile fix indeed.

Would you be able to make a pull-request out of your proposal? I would also
like to see a test added for this...

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Yes, I'll put a PR. I'll add some notes about how I've been testing but
might need some pointers/help to create a proper test.

Thanks

Rob

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