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Jochen Roderburg wrote:

(abbreviated:)

> 51% [=============================>                              ] 157,962
> 5.37K/s   in 3m 45s

> Further examination of such cases showed that a Byte-Range transfer was
> requested by wget, but was not done by the server. On most normal cases this
> cannot happen, because wget first examines the headers and does these requests
> only when they are advertized by the server. The situation, where this does
> happen nevertheless, is very complicated and rare and envolves local and 
> remote
> proxies again.

Thanks for tracking this down, Jochen.

Probably not something to worry too much about for 1.11, then; I've
created the bug report and targeted it for 1.12.

I'm still waiting to have a chance to have a good look at the other
stuff you brought up (related to HEAD, timestamping, etc). I've decided
that it's probably worth a potential delay (assuming that the legal
stuff gets resolved soon) to get some solid, machine-interpretable
automated tests on this behavior, so we have a clear understanding of
what Wget is doing in that area. AIUI, the tests Mauro wrote for that
code are intended for human consumption (that is, look over the output
and verify that it's doing the right thing), which isn't practical
enough for regular regression testing, because our current test
framework doesn't support protocol-level testing very well (though, with
a bit of tweaking, I believe it can be brought to an adequate level for
that).

To all: see http://wget.addictivecode.org/FeatureSpecifications/Testing
for thoughts on where testing should maybe go in the future.

- --
Micah J. Cowan
Programmer, musician, typesetting enthusiast, gamer...
http://micah.cowan.name/

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