Re: [Bug-wget] On any error in header retrieval, destination file is deleted

[Mikael Magnusson]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Mikael Magnusson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've noticed recently that while downloading a file, if there's an
> error while retrieving the headers, the subsequent retry loop starts
> over from the beginning of the file. This is independent of options
> like -c etc since it's just an internal retry of the fetch loop, but I
> was using -c too. The same download sometimes errored during download
> of data and then retries were correctly continued after the already
> retrieved data. It doesn't matter if it's a "connection reset" or
> "read error" or "connection timed out", any error followed by "in
> headers" wipes the file. I'm using 1.15 (on gentoo, but there's no
> patch to the c code).

This bug is still present in 1.16.

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Mikael Magnusson