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Re: Malformed chunk error

From: Thiru balaji <thirubalajis_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 16:45:11 +0530

Hi Daniel,

I have captured the exact error of text

"* Malformed encoding found in chunked-encoding
* Closing connection 5"

I dont know what is causing this error.

Thanks
Thiru balaji S

On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 3:35 PM, Thiru balaji <thirubalajis_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Version that i am using 7.36.0.
> Unfortunately the server is not publicly accessible.
>
> Thanks
> Thiru balaji S
>
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 9 Nov 2016, Thiru balaji wrote:
>>
>> When I try a download in the transfer chunk encoding. I often receive a
>>> "malformed chunk" error from the curl and the download is stopped.
>>>
>>> Is it related to the size of the file that I am downloading.
>>>
>>> What is the reason to receive "malformed chunk".
>>>
>>
>> Does it really say exactly "malformed chunk" ? I find no such error text
>> in a modern libcurl version. It will help if you are as precise as possible.
>>
>> If you're using a libcurl version from before Jan 2014 you have a chunked
>> encoding parser that is a bit stricter. We loosened the parser a bit back
>> then to be more aligned with how the browsers parse chunks. What libcurl
>> version are you using?
>>
>> The exact reason for the error message is probably best researched by you
>> investigating the raw HTTP stream that curl reads.
>>
>> Do you see this issue on a publicly accessible URL that we too can try to
>> fetch?
>>
>> --
>>
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