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 _______________________________________________ Toolserver-l mailing list ([email protected]) https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l Posting guidelines for this list: https://wiki.toolserver.org/view/Mailing_list_etiquette
