There is a better way...,

Try to upload to a temporary name, and rename to the intended name,
in that case it can't fail....

kind regards,

Nico Baggus
ING Securities Services
Systems Management
+31 20 - 7979577

> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
> [mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se] On Behalf Of
> Dan.Palasek_at_VerizonWireless.com
> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 08:34
> To: curl-users_at_cool.haxx.se
> Subject: RE: Uploaded unaligned file size error
>
>
> The real issue has been discovered. The system that the file
> was being sent
> to was moving the file while it was being sent. It checked
> for the file
> every 5 min. and relocated it. My process kept retrying the
> transfer every
> 10 minutes. Now I immediately retry a failed transfer and, if needed,
> recycle attempts every 7 min.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Dan Palasek
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se
> [mailto:curl-users-bounces_at_cool.haxx.se]On Behalf Of Daniel Stenberg
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 8:39 AM
> To: curl tool talk
> Subject: Re: Uploaded unaligned file size error
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 Dan.Palasek_at_VerizonWireless.com wrote:
>
> > When I searched for others encountering this same issue,
> the reason always
> > seemed to be related to large file support. In my case I am
> using Curl to
> > FTP upload a 8.8Mb file and consistently get the unaligned
> file error at
> > about 85% of the file transferred. The transfer time is
> roughly 5 minutes.
>
> > Any ideas? I am using the package install rel. 7.10.3 on Solaris 2.8
> sending
> > a file through FTP via a Proxy :
> > curl -v -p -x $proxy:$pport -u $user:$pass -T $file
> > ftp://$server/$path/$file
>
> It sounds as if the transfer is being aborted by something
> along the way. It
>
> could be a bad network, bad proxy, bad server or a curl bug.
> Does it always
> die after the same amount of time?
>
> I'm not familiar with any bug in curl that would produce this
> problem, but
> then you're using a fairly old version.
>
> --
> Daniel Stenberg -- http://curl.haxx.se -- http://daniel.haxx.se
> Dedicated custom curl help for hire: http://haxx.se/curl.html
>

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