On 1/17/2012 4:23 AM, Alex Bligh wrote:
>
>
> --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?
>

Interesting suggestion -- I'll give that a try. Thanks! What I've found
really puzzling is how inconsistent the problem appears to be.

btw -- I upgraded curl manually by compiling from source. Problem
persists, so it doesn't seem as simple as 'your curl might been too old'.
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Received on 2012-01-17