On Sat, 13 Jul 2013, Clemens Gruber wrote:

> I have problems with a FTP transfer: It works with the verbose option set,
> but not without it.

Which (lib)curl version is this? If not a recent version, I hope you've at
least tried the latest one to see if the problem persists!

> curl exits with: (19) RETR response: 502

If you snoop on the connection with wireshark or similar, can you see anything
wrong in curl's parsing of what the server responds? If the server does indeed
return a 502 I don't think libcurl can do much about it!

> Maybe I should mention that my ftp server does not support the SIZE command,
> but in the log I see that curl obtains the size with/after the RETR command
> (debug message: "Getting file with size: 42000“)

An FTP server in 2013 that doesn't support SIZE rings a whole set of alarm
bells in my head. It makes me suspect the problem is in the server end...

> Is this a bug in libcurl or a mistake on my side?

I would guess neither, as libcurl does nothing differently with verbose
enabled - or at least it shouldn't. It will only change the timing somewhat
of when it does what.

> In Wireshark I saw, that libcurl is sending a "SIZE testfile“ command three
> times, each time followed by a „RETR testfile“ command. (Maybe the download
> is finished after that, because I see a QUIT sent to the server, but even if
> the file was downloaded successfully, without the -v, curl seems to throw
> the content away?)

Maybe you can show us that protocol analyze so that we can see what happened?

-- 
  / daniel.haxx.se

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