On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:36:19PM -0400, H.S. wrote:
> 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

[snip]

> > 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

what if you point the browser at the directory instead of the file, the
listing should give you a file size as well 

> 
> 
> So something is messed with the server. How do I go about checking what?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
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