On Tuesday 07 June 2005 12:31 pm, Soumen Chakrabarti wrote: > Use a Web server that gives a correct content-length for large files. > Create a large file. A lynx listing shows: > > [ ] bigf 18-May-2005 15:01 931G > > And the raw HTTP header is fine as well: > > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 17:25:27 GMT > Server: Apache/2.1.3 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.1.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7a DAV/2 SVN/1.1.4 > Last-Modified: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:31:55 GMT > ETag: "2a8042-d4a51001-28e1b8c0" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 1000000000001 > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/plain > > But wget messes up: > > Connecting to <ipaddr>:80... connected. > HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK > Length: -727,379,967 [text/plain] > [ <=> ] 1,102 --.--K/s > 22:29:05 (10.51 MB/s) - `bigf' saved [1102/-727379967]) > > The actual file length is 1102 on disk after wget exits.
hi soumen, unfortunately, wget 1.9.1 does not have long file support. this feature has been added recently to wget 1.10, which i am going to release tonight or tomorrow morning at most. -- Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem... Mauro Tortonesi http://www.tortonesi.com University of Ferrara - Dept. of Eng. http://www.ing.unife.it Institute for Human & Machine Cognition http://www.ihmc.us GNU Wget - HTTP/FTP file retrieval tool http://www.gnu.org/software/wget Deep Space 6 - IPv6 for Linux http://www.deepspace6.net Ferrara Linux User Group http://www.ferrara.linux.it
