On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 01:52:04PM +0000, philippe marguinaud via curl-library wrote: > I like curl, and I have written an application based on it to retrieve data > from remote servers and then process it. I would like to use it at my work, > but > all our data is stored on a proprietary FTP server which apparently does not > return file size. No way to fix it, it is really closed software.
What does the server return in that case? A bogus value or an error code of some sort? > The problem is that when requesting partial transfers, curl performs a sanity > check to verify that the requested range is actually included between 0 and > the > file size. This is perfectly fine, except that it does not work in my case. > Other software such lftp do not perform that check, and partial transfers work > OK. > I have created a git branch to add an option to curl so that the check on > partial range be disabled. Would it be possible to have this integrated inside > curl, and if so, how should I proceed ? Is it possible to change libcurl to skip this check automatically if the server doesn't return a size? ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: https://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
