On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 01:48:50PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> retitle 681214 lynx-cur: lynx doesn't truncate downloaded files to 
> Content-Length value
> thanks
> 
> On 2012-07-11 15:19:12 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> > When downloading a file from http://partage-fichiers.ens-lyon.fr/
> > lynx added 8 bytes to the file:
> > 
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 vlefevre vlefevre 59675248 2012-07-11 14:07:33 tst-exp.tar.xz
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 vlefevre vlefevre 59675256 2012-07-11 15:02:33 tst-exp.tar.xz.3
> > 
> > $ cmp tst-exp.tar.xz tst-exp.tar.xz.3
> > cmp: EOF on tst-exp.tar.xz
> > $ tail -c 8 tst-exp.tar.xz.3 | hd
> > 00000000  35 39 36 37 35 32 34 38                           |59675248|
> > 00000008
> 
> This is actually the file size. This can be reproduced on a small
> file:

What you're saying is that the content length is incorrect.

RFC 2616 doesn't appear to specify behavior when the content-length is
incorrect.

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