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Re: Behaviour of -C

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2000 10:06:16 +0100 (MET)

On Sat, 4 Nov 2000, Michael Schwendt wrote:

> With 6.5.2 I could simply resume an interrupted FTP download by
> typing:
>
> curl -v -c -O <url>
>
> With 7.3, this no longer works. Instead of downloading just that part of
> the file which hasn't been downloaded already, curl starts downloading at
> the beginning, but appends the data to the end of my local copy. I'd like
> to know how I am supposed to resume a download now? Doesn't curl find out
> the size of the local file any longer? Do I need to specify the download
> offset manually, using -O <offset>? If so, this is not comfortable.

Could you post a piece of that -v output you got, as the communication with
the FTP server is very interesting for understanding this bug.

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
Received on 2000-11-05