Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <gqg8ru$4j...@ger.gmane.org>, H.S. wrote: >> I have a large data tar file of 4.4 GB. I have made it available over >> https to be downloaded by the recipient. This is on a Debian Sid, 2.6.26 >> kernel and the partition is ext3. >> >> When the remote user clicks on that download link, his browser is >> showing the file size to be only around 130 MB. The client is a Windows >> XP machine where the drive is NTFS formatted. >> >> I am not well versed with apache server. Have it somehow hit a limit set >> in the https server? If not what gives? > > It's probably not a problem with the Apache server. Instead, it is probably > an issue with the Windows client. The size reported by the Apache server is > probably overflowing a 32-bit unsigned integer. I'm pretty sure the NTFS > supports 4.4G files, but that doesn't mean that every client (or server) is > prepared to see a size that large. > > Could you post the results of an HTTP HEAD request for the file? I'm > particularly interested in what Apache is sending as the value of the > Content-Length header. If you don't have another tool in mind for this, > wget should be able to show you these headers. > > If the Content-Length is correct, it is a problem client-side. If the > Content-Length is incorrect, it is a problem server-side.
I gave it a shot myself with my own machine using Iceape browser and I also see the size as around 132 MB. I am trying from a Debian Testing machine (ext3 partition). Here is the request I see if I try using wget: . . . HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 138256384 (132M) [application/x-tar] Saving to: `datafile.tar' 18% [==================> ] 25,657,344 11.1M/s ^C So something is messed with the server. How do I go about checking what? Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
