Big files
Hi I would like to know if there is a reason for using a signed int for the length of the files to download. The thing is that I was trying to download a 2.3 GB file using wget, but then the length was printed as a negative number and wget said Aborted. Is it a bug or a design decision? Is there an option for downloading big files? In this case, I used curl. Please CC replies, I'm not a suscriber Thanks! C S
Re: Big files
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:19:50 -0400, Cristián Serpell [EMAIL PROTECTED] : I would like to know if there is a reason for using a signed int for the length of the files to download. The thing is that I was trying to download a 2.3 GB file using wget, but then the length was printed as a negative number and wget said Aborted. Is it a bug or a design decision? Which version of wget are you using? It was a bug of older wget versions. You can see it with the output of wget --version command (latest version is 1.11.4). I'm not having any trouble with downloading files bigger than 2G. Doruk -- FISEK INSTITUTE - http://www.fisek.org.tr
RE: Big files
Cristián Serpell wrote: I would like to know if there is a reason for using a signed int for the length of the files to download. I would like to know why people still complain about bugs that were fixed three years ago. (More accurately, it was a design flaw that originated from a time when no computer OS supported files that big, but regardless of what you call it, the change to wget was made to version 1.10 in 2005.) Tony
Re: Big files
It is the latest Ubuntu's distribution, that still comes with the old version. Thanks anyway, that was the problem. El 16-09-2008, a las 15:08, Tony Lewis escribió: Cristián Serpell wrote: I would like to know if there is a reason for using a signed int for the length of the files to download. I would like to know why people still complain about bugs that were fixed three years ago. (More accurately, it was a design flaw that originated from a time when no computer OS supported files that big, but regardless of what you call it, the change to wget was made to version 1.10 in 2005.) Tony
Re: Big files
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cristián Serpell wrote: It is the latest Ubuntu's distribution, that still comes with the old version. Thanks anyway, that was the problem. I know that's untrue. Ubuntu comes with 1.10.2 at least, and has for quite some time. If you're using that, then it's probably a different bug than Doruk and Tony were thinking of (perhaps one of the cases of content-length mishandling that were recently fixed in the 1.11.x series). IIRC Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) will have 1.11.4. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI0AnI7M8hyUobTrERAqptAJoCj0VC46dBOhrr/A3HsHyicciKWQCffyFQ bHhmuYHmf52Yz1M5lu7Yk5Y= =Z+fN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Big files
Maybe I should have started by this (I had to change the name of the file shown): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# wget --version GNU Wget 1.10.2 Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. Originally written by Hrvoje Niksic [EMAIL PROTECTED]. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp# wget --debug http://program-linux64.tar.bz2 DEBUG output created by Wget 1.10.2 on linux-gnu. --15:37:42-- http://program-linux64.tar.bz2 = `program.tar.bz2' Resolving www.ai.sri.com... 130.107.65.215 Caching www.ai.sri.com = 130.107.65.215 Connecting to www.ai.sri.com|130.107.65.215|:80... connected. Created socket 3. Releasing 0x0064a100 (new refcount 1). ---request begin--- GET /program-linux64.tar.bz2 HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.10.2 Accept: */* Host: www.ai.sri.com Connection: Keep-Alive ---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:37:46 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:17:51 GMT ETag: 7f710a-8a8e1bf7-47fbd2ef Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: -1970398217 Keep-Alive: timeout=5, max=100 Connection: Keep-Alive Content-Type: application/x-tar ---response end--- 200 OK Registered socket 3 for persistent reuse. Length: -1,970,398,217 [application/x-tar] [ =] 0 --.--K/s Aborted El 16-09-2008, a las 15:32, Micah Cowan escribió: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cristián Serpell wrote: It is the latest Ubuntu's distribution, that still comes with the old version. Thanks anyway, that was the problem. I know that's untrue. Ubuntu comes with 1.10.2 at least, and has for quite some time. If you're using that, then it's probably a different bug than Doruk and Tony were thinking of (perhaps one of the cases of content-length mishandling that were recently fixed in the 1.11.x series). IIRC Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) will have 1.11.4. - -- Micah J. Cowan Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer. GNU Maintainer: wget, screen, teseq http://micah.cowan.name/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI0AnI7M8hyUobTrERAqptAJoCj0VC46dBOhrr/A3HsHyicciKWQCffyFQ bHhmuYHmf52Yz1M5lu7Yk5Y= =Z+fN -END PGP SIGNATURE-
RE: Big files
Cristián Serpell wrote: Maybe I should have started by this (I had to change the name of the file shown): [snip] ---response begin--- HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:37:46 GMT Server: Apache Last-Modified: Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:17:51 GMT ETag: 7f710a-8a8e1bf7-47fbd2ef Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: -1970398217 The problem is not with wget. It's with the Apache server, which told wget that the file had a negative length. Tony
