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Re: transfer closed with bytes remaining to read Windows 7 issue

From: Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel_at_kitware.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 15:14:42 -0500

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On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Daniel Stenberg write:
> On Tue, 4 Dec 2012, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> > One more small piece of information. We took a successful download
> > of a file and chopped off the end of it to make it match the size of
> > a failed file and they were still different. So, it seemed that
> > there was something missing from the middle of the file.
> That is indeed very curious. Can you investigate how they differ and
> if there's a pattern over repeated test runs (and failures) ?

I've run tests with wget[1] and the same problem occurs on Windows 7.
This makes me think that something that the code is assuming on Windows
is no longer valid. It might be worth opening a regression bug against
Windows 7 with Microsoft to figure out if something on their end changed
and if not, help on tracking where the assumptions break down.

--Ben

[1]http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/
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