This is likely your company proxy not supporting huge downloads. Might be
its cache partition got filled up.
Marco
2009/12/15 Rob Giberson <ajaxdwr(a)gmail.com>
I failed several times and ended up downloading
exactly the same number of
bytes: 1,465,454KB (1.46GB), even for different versions of that file.
Is it possible that the files themselves are corrupted? Anyone successfully
downloaded one of these big files recently?
Rob
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:11 PM, Rob Giberson <ajaxdwr(a)gmail.com> wrote:
You got that right. I am behind a company proxy.
Any idea how to get this
around?
On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 8:09 PM, K. Peachey <p858snake(a)yahoo.com.au
wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Rob Giberson <ajaxdwr(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Guess this problem might be asked several (many) times before...but
> >
> > I tried to download the pages-articles.xml.bz2 file which is
> approximately
> > 5.xGB. However, all versions I tried failed at about 1.5GB. I noticed
> > someone posted a Python code online as a workaround, but it did not
work
> for
> > me.
> >
> > My machine is Windows Server 2008 64 bit. Any idea how to get this
huge
file?
Appreciated.
Rob
You wouldn't happen to have proxies between you and your internet
connection would you?
-Peachey
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