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Re: help with get

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 17:31:25 +0200 (CEST)

On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Paul Accosta wrote:

> I have a program that gets webpages. Ive noticed that with some webpages
> that I do not receive the entire content. I actaully ran snort to find more
> detailed information and from what I can tell libcurl send a FIN back before
> the entire transfer is complete.

libcurl only does that if it believes the transfer is complete.

> It doesnt do this often and size is not the issue. I have no problem getting
> something large like ebay.com. What Ive noticed though is the pages that
> come up short do not have a content length in the page header. Is this the
> cause of my problem? And if it is is there a way around this so that I can
> retrieve full pages.

Can you please provide more details on when you see this problem? This sounds
like a possible bug in libcurl (or in the server) so it would be nice to find
it...

-- 
 Daniel Stenberg -- curl: been grokking URLs since 1998
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Received on 2003-07-01