Vladi Belperchinov-Shabanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yes, it's a known bug and is documented in the current CVS version of
> > wget.texi. With luck, the fix may be as simple as changing a <= to a <.
> > It's just that no one's had a chance to look at it. Feel free to peruse
> > the source and send us a patch.
>
> As far as I can understand the problem is that http server does
> not return Content-Range header if requested range starts at the
> end of the file (note that this problem is just for http connections
> ftp is fine). Unfortunately wget code is still not very clear to me
> and I'm a bit afraid to touch it :) anyway I'll write few notes, so
> if anyone that is aware could fix it perhaps...
>
> http.c:1008: Content-Range header never found and so
> contrange stays at -1
>
> http.c:1126: contrange is still -1 so hs->restval is reset to 0
> if I get it correctly here is the place that code
> should be fixed...
>
> if hs->restval is requested and is equal to file size so either
> procedure should be canceled or continued as there are 0 bytes
> left...
>
> currently I cannot do more than this, I'm sorry.
Thanks for the detective work, Vladi. Hopefully that'll help someone come
up with a fix before the releases of 1.6.1 and 1.7.
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