On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 10:08:37AM -0400, Dave Yost wrote:
> If curl is asked to continue from where it left off, and the file was already
> correctly downloaded, it exits with a result code of 18. This would be OK I
> guess if the 18 were used only for this situation, but apparently it is used
> for other situations.
>
> I suggest that curl should exit with status 0 if the file is already downloaded
> correctly.

It normally does. Take a look at tests 92 and 1040, which test this exact
situation. It sounds to me like the server is not supporting the range
request properly. If you use the -v option, you should see how it's
handling it.

> I presume that curl doesn't just look for the count of bytes in the file it's
> resuming but instead actually verifies that those bytes are correct.

No, it just looks at the size, not the content.

>>> Dan

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