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Re: transfer closed with bytes remaining to read Windows 7 issue

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:44:05 +0100 (CET)

On Tue, 11 Dec 2012, Ben Boeckel wrote:

> I've run tests with wget[1] and the same problem occurs on Windows 7. This
> makes me think that something that the code is assuming on Windows is no
> longer valid.

Right. It was a while since I checked the wget source code but I would expect
that too to be pretty simple in the actual loop that just reads the downloaded
data, and like in curl's case I would expect it to be pretty much identical no
matter which platform.

> It might be worth opening a regression bug against Windows 7 with Microsoft
> to figure out if something on their end changed and if not, help on tracking
> where the assumptions break down.

Yes, it all points to some kind of Windows 7-specific issue, but I'm not in a
very good position to pinpoint this much closer right now. :-/

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