Hi,

Thanks for the reply !

Actually i have even tried passing the exact file size to curl API but
din't work !

Alex Bligh wrote:
>
>
> --On 17 March 2011 18:10:53 +0530 lakshmi <lakshmi_at_dikshatech.com> wrote:
>
>> I am trying to do FTP download using the curl API "CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE"
>> for a file which is of 400MB !
>
> The curl library list is here:
> http://cool.haxx.se/mailman/listinfo/curl-library
>
>> Curl API is:
>> curl_easy_setopt(curlHandle_m, CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE, 3L);
>>
>> The following error occurs and the file doesn't get downloaded: "63
>> Maximum file size exceeded"
>
>
>> From the man page:
>
>> CURLOPT_MAXFILESIZE
>>
>> Pass a long as parameter. This allows you to specify the maximum size
>> (in
>> bytes) of a file to download. If the file requested is larger than this
>> value, the transfer will not start and CURLE_FILESIZE_EXCEEDED will be
>> returned.
>>
>> The file size is not always known prior to download, and for such files
>> this option has no effect even if the file transfer ends up being larger
>> than this given limit. This concerns both FTP and HTTP transfers.
>
> You are setting the maximum file size to 3 bytes. Is that really what
> you intended? 400MB > 3 bytes.
>

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Received on 2011-03-17