On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 04:15:48PM -0700, Craig Perras wrote:
> Thanks to Dan Fandrich, I understand that curl doesn't support ranges for
> http file-upload (only the -C option). 2 questions:
>
> 1) would that feature be useful? if so i may be able to provide a patch.

If you find it useful, then there's a good chance that someone else might,
too.

> 2) how is the -C option useful in practice? say, after 2 GB of uploading a
> 3 GB file, the connection is closed. how does the client know where to
> resume? the only sure way i know of is to upload parts of a file (eg: with
> ranges), and wait for the server to respond with an "ok" for each part.
> maybe another way is to query the server to ask it the current size of the
> file.

You'll probably want to query the server for the current file size as you
suggest. KNOWN_BUG #8 is that curl doesn't do that by itself on uploads.

>>> Dan

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