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List:       wget
Subject:    Re: VMS server testing needed - problem if premature termination
From:       Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic () arsdigita ! com>
Date:       2001-04-27 6:32:04
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[ Sorry for taking so long to answer! ]

Lachlan Cranswick <lachlan@ldeo.columbia.edu> writes:

> >> It would also then be easy for WGET to see that a file had not been
> >> downloaded correctly from a VMS FTPD server.
> >
> >I'm not sure how this follows from downloading to .<filename>.
> 
> Hopefully the following is sort of clear cut  (If not ask again).
> 
> If the download terminated before the file was 100% complete - it
> will not update "filename{nowold}" by doing a move of ."filename" to
> "filename".

But the problem is that the size information is missing, therefore
Wget doesn't *know* whether the download is 100% complete.

In some cases it can know because it receives a network error.  But
often all Wget gets is an EOF, and file is not done.  Without size
information, it's simply not possible to point out, "the file is now
done."

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