Ahhhh that makes sense, and that'll work, thanks!

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 5:36 AM, Alexander V. Lukyanov <l...@netis.ru> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 01:50:35AM -0500, Nate Sutton wrote:
> > I tried it and setting it to a low timeout setting (10) made it fail
> with a
> > timeout, so it does work for the purpose, but if possible I'd like to
> just
> > limit the number of retries. Is there a setting I'm missing, maybe?
>
> It should not be set to a low value, the default is one day. The timer is
> reset every time when the transfer goes over "high watermark". So when the
> transfer starts over and does not reach the high watermark for the
> specified in xfer:timeout time, the transfer times out and fails.
>
> --
>    Alexander.
>
> > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 8:46 PM, Nate Sutton <nathan.sut...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > What should I be setting this to? I don't quite understand how setting
> a
> > > timeout will fix this issue, could you explain? lftp isn't stalling for
> > > very long while downloading and intermittent stalls in transfers ought
> to
> > > be tolerated, so I wouldn't want to set it too low. And besides, the
> error
> > > message "recv: SSL_read: error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0)"
> implies
> > > that the peer shut down the connection, right? It seems in this case
> that
> > > limiting the number of retries when the peer terminates the connection
> > > would be better, since otherwise it gets that error message and
> retries the
> > > transfer again and again forever.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> > >
> > > On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 5:00 AM, Alexander V. Lukyanov <l...@netis.ru>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 07:37:06PM -0500, Nate Sutton wrote:
> > >> > I'm downloading from an HTTP server where it stops sending the file
> at
> > >> > about 40 MB and then stops sending data. lftp doesn't seem to handle
> > >> this
> > >> > very well and retries the transfer over and over and over,
> indefinitely.
> > >> >
> > >> > https://gist.github.com/nate/e7e47d3a86118439c36a1877847d8b01
> > >> >
> > >> > This happens with pget -n 5, pget -n 1, and get.
> > >> >
> > >> > Is this expected behavior? Is there a way to disable it? Or set a
> max
> > >> > number of retries? net:max-retries is already set to 3...
> > >>
> > >> Please test
> > >>
> > >>
> https://github.com/lavv17/lftp/commit/989b10e928d73136ef2460572350f14a6a6d14c7
> > >> or http://lftp.yar.ru/ftp/devel/lftp-4.7.1.8-a7ceb-dirty.tar.gz
> > >> which introduces new xfer:timeout setting.
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >>    Alexander.
> > >>
> > >
> > >
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