On 13 August 2010 11:27, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, Corinna Vinschen! > >>> > On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> > (snip) >>> >> <stdout>:curl -iI -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -s -- >>> >> "http://cygwin.com/setup.exe"; >>> >> HTTP/1.1 200 OK >>> >> Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:59:40 GMT >>> >> Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat) >>> >> Last-Modified: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:28:21 GMT >>> >> ETag: "18e01b8-a7413-9f101340" >>> >> Accept-Ranges: bytes >>> >> Vary: Accept-Encoding >>> >> Content-Encoding: gzip >>> >> Cache-Control: max-age=0 >>> >> Expires: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:59:40 GMT >>> >> Content-Type: application/octet-stream >>> >>> > Works for me with wget: >>> >>> Of course. It's just you can't launch it after wget - file don't have rights >>> to execute it. > >> chmod +x ? > > Indeed, yet again, it's not the point of my question. > I have download manager processing downloads from my web browser. > It's quite enough for me. When server behave correctly.
There's nothing wrong (in this regard) with the server. See http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html | In HTTP, it SHOULD be sent whenever the message's length can be | determined prior to being transferred You forced it to use gzip encoding, which is often a streaming process, and in general a server won't know in advance how long the content will be. Remove the -H (and -I) and curl works just fine (and the content is shorter than the gzipped version). In fact, curl works just fine even with the -H option, as long as you remove the -I, and remember to gunzip the contents. You had the choice of: a) criticizing the set-up of one of the web's largest and most reliable download sites or b) pausing to consider whether perhaps you'd missed something in your HTTP class I think perhaps you made the wrong choice. Phil -- > > -- > WBR, > Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 13.08.2010, <14:26> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
