On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, Vishal_garg wrote:

> I am using curl-7-9-3.

> Libcurl returns 18 as error code if the remote file is being written at the
> time libcurl tries to retrieve the file.

libcurl will return error 18 if more or less data was transfered than was
originally told (by the server), yes.

> Is there any way in which I can retrieve the partial file, whatsoever its
> size is.

The error 18 (CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE) is returned after the transfer, but the
transfer was performed. You should've got parts of the file.

> Moreover in Windows it behaves differently as compare to in LINUX.In
> Windows if the speed of writing the remote file is slow then libcurl
> retrieves the file without error code 18,but in LINUX it returns error code
> 18 even if the remote file is being written at a slow speed.

I don't think this has anything to do with platform differences.

Feel free to provide examples showing this in greater detail if you think
differently.

> Does future or higher versions of libcurl can retrieve partial file? If
> yes, how?

It already retrieves the file, it just returns an error since it got a
different size than the server told it would send.

You could just make your program treat CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE as OK.

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