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Re: cURL and a tricky Server ( or maybe simple user of cURL :) )

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 17:05:19 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, Tapio Jarnfors wrote:

> At begin downloading starts and if I have a speed 128k everything works and
> I the page as needed. This with my speedy laptop. But on my old computer I
> have Win98 and it’s slowly one, so maximum speed is only 56k. After 30 s I
> lost connection (forced by Server, on my mind) and page is incomplete. If
> speed is lower then I lost more (always after 30 s connection time).

It sounds as if you have a network problem, or a server that cuts off your
connection prematurely.

> Also this same happens with Telnet (as following) and with Excel +
> WebQuery, so I thing it’s not depend on cURL itself, user-Agent etc. Also I
> tried something like this with another service provider and it was working
> okay. (length of page was 350k something)

So, it isn't curl's fault.

> Is it possible that server is putting some limit for connection and
> how I can bypass that (or can I )?

Well, if they do have some limit in any way, then it sounds as if it only
allows you to stay connected for a specific period of time. I can't see how
you can work around that, other than loggin on to a remote site with a faster
internet connection and download the file from there in the first step and
then from there to your place.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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Received on 2003-02-20