I feel curl should do a bit better reporting the true size of huge files on
platform that doesn't actually support storing >2GB files. E.g. take this
example from a MSDOS/djgpp built curl:

curl -o NUL -v ftp://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/linux/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-DVD.iso
...
> RETR FC2-i386-DVD.iso
< 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for FC2-i386-DVD.iso (4370640896 bytes).
* Connection accepted from server
* Maxdownload = -1
* Getting file with size: 2147483647
{ [data not shown]
  % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
                                 Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
  0 2047M 0 7501k 0 0 149k 0 3:54:08 0:00:50 3:53:18 165k

I'm not trying to store the file (-o NUL). So the underlying file-system should not
IMHO hinder curl in reporting the true size. djgpp does have 64-bit 'long long', so
the reporting shouldn't be a problem. Just my $0.02.

--gv
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Received on 2008-07-21