On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:10:49 +0100 Dag-Erling Smørgrav <d...@des.no> wrote:
> Rainer Hurling <rhur...@gwdg.de> writes: > > In the meantime, the author of fotoxx, Michael Cornelison, answered > > to me two times. Mike confirms, that the file is fetchable from > > different Linux systems and that in his eyes, there is no problem > > with reported and de facto file length. > > > > Trying to load fotoxx-14.01.1.tar.gz via ftp/wget seems to work > > without problems and gives me a file length of 2696186 (!) bytes. > > > > So I am irritated which file length is right and what's going on > > here ... > > What's going on is that the server accepts persistent connections but > does not have a request timeout set, so libfetch, due to an unexpected > interaction between multiple buffering layers, hangs waiting for more > data while the server hangs waiting for the next request; then > libfetch times out and doesn't notice that it already received > exactly the amount of data it expected. Most servers have very short > request timeouts, so they close the connection while libfetch is > waiting, which libfetch interprets as an EOF (which is an expected > condition as long as it received all the data it wanted) as opposed > to a timeout (which is an error). Anyway, it was fixed in head in > r261230. > Thank you. -- Michael Gmelin _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
