I may run into this in the future. What is the "threshold" for large files failing on the -current version of wget??? I'm not expecting to d/l anything over 200MB, but is that even too large for it?
Sorry to threadjack, but it seemed an appropiate question... Bryan On Apr 11, 2005 2:46 AM, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Sanjay Madhavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > wget 1.9.1 fails when trying to download a very large file. > > > > The download stopped in between and attempting to resume shows a negative > > sized balance to be downloaded. > > > > e.g.ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/SuSE/i386/9.2/iso/SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso > > 3284710 KB > > > > I read somewhere that it is due to the fact that internally the size > > is being stored as signed integers and hence the numbers wrap around > > giving negative sizes for large (DVD sized files) > > That is correct. But this problem has been fixed in the current CVS. > If you know how to use CVS, you can download it (the instructions are > at http://wget.sunsite.dk/) and give it a spin. Downloading that file > should work in that version: > > {mulj}[~]$ wget > ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/SuSE/i386/9.2/iso/SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso > --11:44:46-- > ftp://ftp.solnet.ch/mirror/SuSE/i386/9.2/iso/SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso > => `SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso' > Resolving ftp.solnet.ch... 212.101.4.244 > Connecting to ftp.solnet.ch|212.101.4.244|:21... connected. > Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! > ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. > ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /mirror/SuSE/i386/9.2/iso ... done. > ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR SUSE-Linux-9.2-FTP-DVD.iso ... done. > Length: 3,363,543,040 (3.1G) (unauthoritative) > > 0% [ ] 146,464 > 37.06K/s ETA 24:32:50 > ... >
