Subject: [DUG] Offtopic - Broken/Interrupted transfers 1st 2 attempts failed very quickly - started downloading normally then the progress indicator zipped all the way to the end. Resulting file is 40-50K. 3rd and 4th attempts went fine.
I see other people are reporting it's the first attempts that fail, too. Must be some sort of caching or spin-up thing. > Sorry about this guys. I cant find the relevant group to post this on so I > am asking for help here. Also, if its happening to my software, it might be > happening to yours (if its in the global scheme of networks, and some weird > network bug or virus). > Users advise downloads are being broken or interrupted, which fails when > using a browser client for download eg IE, Opera etc. Resumable downloads > are OK. > Here is the big ask. If you could please try to download the url below up to > 4 x and if > it is less than 1.2 meg in size, its broken. > http://www.spamdel.com/spamdel.exe > Failure rate (on the hosts log is 15-20%) , so 4 x download is within that > failure rate. > Basically, the host is telling me (and others) that I am lying. He has set a > group up on the matter and all so far report no download problems which is > very weird because myself and others have been able to reproduce this > problem: > http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=22564&st=0 > Reason for request - I need to prove to them that there is some sort of > issue. Then and only then will they take any further action. > If you can afford the time, thanks kindly, > Alistair George+ _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
