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Re: Can not get 0 byte file size with FTP

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:45:15 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Jérôme Deshaies wrote:

Please don't top-post!

> url does in fact not support 0 bytes transfers in a particularly good
> fashion.

"curl" I think you mean.

> What do you mean by "in a particularly good fashion" ?

Meaning that you can often get a working solution done with the current
implementation even for 0-bytes, but it won't work transparantly as with files
that actually have content. libcurl is slightly easier to get this from for
some protocols.

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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Received on 2009-06-25