I believe this patch should fix the problem. Could you apply it and
let me know if it fixes things for you?
2005-07-02 Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* http.c (gethttp): Except for head_only, use skip_short_body to
skip the non-20x error message before leaving gethttp.
Index: src/http.c
===================================================================
--- src/http.c (revision 1851)
+++ src/http.c (working copy)
@@ -1889,11 +1889,17 @@
hs->len = 0;
hs->res = 0;
xfree_null (type);
- /* Pre-1.10 Wget used CLOSE_INVALIDATE here. Now we trust the
- servers not to send body in response to a HEAD request. If
- you encounter such a server (more likely a broken CGI), use
- `--no-http-keep-alive'. */
- CLOSE_FINISH (sock);
+ if (head_only)
+ /* Pre-1.10 Wget used CLOSE_INVALIDATE here. Now we trust the
+ servers not to send body in response to a HEAD request. If
+ you encounter such a server (more likely a broken CGI), use
+ `--no-http-keep-alive'. */
+ CLOSE_FINISH (sock);
+ else if (keep_alive && skip_short_body (sock, contlen))
+ /* Successfully skipped the body; also keep using the socket. */
+ CLOSE_FINISH (sock);
+ else
+ CLOSE_INVALIDATE (sock);
return RETRFINISHED;
}
