On 09.11.2010 15:23, bawolff wrote:
Considering that dumps.wikimedia.org serves files in excess of 100 GB, I don't think HTTP the protocol is the issue. However when you try to request the file (or even just do a HEAD request) the web server closes the connection before sending any data, suggesting its a web server issue, not an HTTP the protocol issue.
-bawolff
Some servers, clients and proxies break on the 31 (or 32) bit boundary (2 or 4 GB, respectively) for the content-length field. wget is a prominent example for this (or was, when i last tried this a couple of years ago).
-- daniel