Hi Daniel,

The example below had a small typo in that the 'echo -en1' was run together;
it should have been 'echo -en 1'.

I haven't looked at the traffic on the wire yet to see what is going on. I
can do that today. What I can tell you is that on version 7.9.8 it exits
very quickly and if I look at the server it will have a file at
http://someserver/directory/file.txt with the number '1' in it. All the
other newer versions listed below do not create the file or if the file is
there and had a different value then it is clearly not updated.

Also, of all the tests I have run with the newer versions, they all exit
between 15 and 16 minutes without creating / updating the file on the
server.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Stenberg [mailto:daniel_at_haxx.se]
Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2003 6:56 AM
To: Curl Mailinglist
Cc: Bill_Hyden_at_exchange.dell.com

On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 Bryan_Kemp_at_Dell.com wrote:

> On the following version of curl:
> 7.10.4
>
> using the following command line:
> echo -en1 | curl -T - http://someserver/directory/file.txt -H
> "Content-length: 1"

What is this supposed to do?

> On Redhat 8 and 9, There is approximately a 15 minute pause and then the
> program times out without ever updating the file.

And what is actually sent over the cable then?

> If I use version 7.9.8 or older, I do not get a delay and the file updates
> properly.

And what is actually sent over the cable then?

What I mean is, you see different behaviors, yes, but without any further
specific details I cannot tell if one or even any of these commands do the
right thing. The fact that the 7.9.8 exited faster is not enough proof to me
that it did the right thing. (In fact, I seriously doubt that it did.)

I would rather focus on why the 7.10.4 case "hangs", but to proceed with
that
I need more details.

I'll work up something in my end too, to see what I can find out.

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl, cURL, Curl, CURL. Groks URLs.
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