In this mail list one guy has proposed a patch to fix this problem as early
as in June 4th. Somehow that patch was turned down at that time. Since the
same problem is poping up again, you can refer to the posted patch and test
it in your source to see if it works to avoid invent wheels. ;-)

http://curl.haxx.se/mail/archive-2007-06/0004.html

2007/8/13, Aleksandar Lazic <al-curlusers_at_none.at>:
>
> On Son 12.08.2007 18:04, Sebastien WILLEMIJNS wrote:
> >hi, curl rerfuse 0 bytes filesize :-( a file is a file, whatever his
> >size ;)
>
> [snipp]
>
> >root@vdsswi:~/test# curl http://80.247.230.136/bug/0filesize -o
>
> Which version of curl do you use?!
>
> curl -V
>
> cheers
>
> Aleks
>
Received on 2007-08-13