Re: [OT] 2GB file limit

FROM : Rainer Brockerhoff
DATE : Sun Apr 03 14:26:40 2005

At 00:10 -0800 03/04/2005, <email_removed> wrote:
>From: Scott Anguish <<email_removed>>
>References: <<email_removed>>
>In-Reply-To: <<email_removed>>
>Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2005 03:37:05 -0400
>Message-ID: <<email_removed>>
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>On Apr 2, 2005, at 10:14 PM, Dave DeLong wrote:

>>I'm trying to download a 2.3 GB file (specifically the latest Tiger build) from the ADC website, but no matter where I try downloading it to (internal vs external HD), it always caps out at 2GB and I can't get the last 300 MB.

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>    many tools don't work right with huge file downloads.  curl for example you have to force to version 0 of the HTTP stuff, and then it still spews bizarre lengths for the last bit.
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>    if you continue having problems, <email_removed> are the people to contact rather than this list.


I had similar problems: downloading was very slow and restarting frequently corrupted the disk image. I _did_ contact DTS about it. So I'm replying just FYI.

DTS said some ISPs run Squid or some similar transparent proxy cache that has trouble with files over 2GB. It turned out that my ISP had a cache but it didn't have that problem.

I tried Firefox, and it gets sizes over 2GB wrong. curl didn't work at all.

In the end, dropping my ADSL connection and connecting again for some reason fixed the problems.
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Rainer Brockerhoff  <<email_removed>>
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