On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Toby Peterson wrote:

> Here's a fairly simple patch (against HEAD) to add a --ignore-content-length
> option, and corresponding CURLOPT_IGNORE_CONTENT_LENGTH. This will make it
> easier to download files from Apache 1.x servers that are (still!) serving
> files larger than 4 GB.

So the Content-Length: header of such a file on such a server is completely
bogus?

Out of curiousity, how are you using this option? Are you always enabling this
(and won't that be bad?) or have you found a way to detect this badness and
then retry the request?

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