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Re: curl not completing transfer

From: Alex Bligh <alex_at_alex.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:53:59 +0000

--On 16 January 2012 12:24:31 -0330 Evan Cooch <evan.cooch_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> By and large, this has worked fine, but for some reason now, curl is not
> completing the transfer. It will transfer some fraction of the file, and
> then quit. It quits gracefully (no obvious error message), so I'm having
> a problem figuring out what to look for. I've already got -v flagged for
> verbose information on the transfer, but that doesn't give me any
> indications that have been useful. The fact that curl is ending
> gracefully i actually a problem, since there is no outward indication it
> has 'quit' -- exccept that the setup.exe file is incomplete, and won't
> install.

This smells like an MTU problem to me.

If you use (say) wget, and run it 100 times against the same URL, do you
get any failures?

-- 
Alex Bligh
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Received on 2012-01-17