On 09.11.2010 15:23, bawolff wrote:
> Considering that dumps.wikimedia.org serves files in excess of 100 GB,
> I don't think HTTP the protocol is the issue. However when you try to
> request the file (or even just do a HEAD request) the web server
> closes the connection before sending any data, suggesting its a web
> server issue, not an HTTP the protocol issue.
> 
> -bawolff

Some servers, clients and proxies break on the 31 (or 32) bit boundary (2 or 4
GB, respectively) for the content-length field. wget is a prominent example for
this (or was, when i last tried this a couple of years ago).

-- daniel

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