>>> when I read the code near ftp.c:1431 (in ftp_state_ul_setup) the
>>> RESUME_FROM handling seems to mean that if resume_from is less than 0,
>>> the transfer should resume from current size of the target file (and
>>> this
>>> is perfect).
>>>
>>> This is not documented, is it to be documented or unreliable?
>>
>> This undocumented feature is in fact used by curl and we really should
>> document how this works!
>>
>> You up to providing a patch for curl_easy_setopt.3 ?
> here is a patch, i'm not very good at doc writing so if you want to
> rewrite
> it, feel free.
>
> now I've a question: enabling resume for FTP sets the 'dont_check' option,
> which unconditionally prevents testing the server return code. I suspect
> that this is because servers may return somewhat exotic return codes.
> isn't
> it? (i wonder if we could find a way to still test them, for example,
> accepting all 2xx code in 'dont_check', or something like that, but not
> 4xx/5xx...)
hum, i was a bit to fast, it's not that important [for servers supporting
SIZE command], by disabling my SIZE optimization stuff in case of resume, it
makes the right thing (return CURLE_PARTIAL_FILE)

Armel
Received on 2006-09-26