On Sat, 2 Oct 2010, Adam Kellas wrote:

>> It seems that on _some_ servers we fail to download a file over SFTP if
>> the file size is larger than 2GB but smaller than 4GB. The size then
>> gets intepreted as negative and libcurl used to crash and now it bails
>> out. But the question is: why does it claim a negative file size?
>
> Do you also mean that the "curl" tool can download such files in unencrypted
> format without trouble?

You mean using other protocols than SFTP? Yes sure. And with encrypted
protocols as well for that matter, like with HTTPS, FTPS and more.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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