curl-library
Re: Download file size
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:57:50 +0100 (MET)
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 11:57:50 +0100 (MET)
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Amit Mongia wrote:
> My server needs me to post certain other variables besides the file name if
> i want to download a file. The server does not accept request through GET
> method.
Ok.
> Can you please suggest where to make a fix in the code to be able to
> download files larger than 4GB. At the moment the download, almost
> everytime stops after downloading 2 GB.
I'm sorry, but I don't know exactly where as then I would've fixed this
myself. I consider this a (minor) flaw in libcurl that this limit exists.
Start with identifying how and why it stops.
Then modify the sources to use one common typedefed variable type for data
size (size_t ?) and make sure that is >32bit.
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