Re: [lftp] misbehaving HTTP server makes lftp retry forever

A that makes sense, and that'll work, thanks! On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Alexander V. Lukyanov wrote: > On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 01:50:35AM -0500, Nate Sutton wrote: > > I tried it and setting it to a low timeout setting (10) made it fail > with a > > timeout, so it does

Re: [lftp] misbehaving HTTP server makes lftp retry forever

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 01:50:35AM -0500, Nate Sutton wrote: > I tried it and setting it to a low timeout setting (10) made it fail with a > timeout, so it does work for the purpose, but if possible I'd like to just > limit the number of retries. Is there a setting I'm missing, maybe? It should

Re: [lftp] misbehaving HTTP server makes lftp retry forever

What should I be setting this to? I don't quite understand how setting a timeout will fix this issue, could you explain? lftp isn't stalling for very long while downloading and intermittent stalls in transfers ought to be tolerated, so I wouldn't want to set it too low. And besides, the error

Re: [lftp] misbehaving HTTP server makes lftp retry forever

I tried it and setting it to a low timeout setting (10) made it fail with a timeout, so it does work for the purpose, but if possible I'd like to just limit the number of retries. Is there a setting I'm missing, maybe? On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Nate Sutton wrote: