[Python-Dev] Re: urllib.urlretrieve (original) (raw)

Fredrik Lundh fredrik at pythonware.com
Thu Aug 26 23:28:28 CEST 2004

David Abrahams wrote:

Is there a known reliability problem with urllib.urlretrieve? I'm getting silent truncation of downloaded files.

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1016880&groupid=5470&atid=105470 has the details.

sourceforge is known to have reliability problems when downloading large files. here's a wget session on my machine (okay, it's not a silent truncation, but SF is clearly not well):

18450K -> .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... [ 54%] 18500K -> ..... [ 54%]

Closing fd 1944 23:11:52 (62.94 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 18949128. Retrying.

--23:11:52-- http://cvs.sourceforge.net:80/cvstarballs/boost-cvsroot.tar.bz2 (try: 2) => `boost-cvsroot.tar.bz2.3' Connecting to cvs.sourceforge.net:80... Created fd 1944. connected! ---request begin--- GET /cvstarballs/boost-cvsroot.tar.bz2 HTTP/1.0 User-Agent: Wget/1.5.3.1 Host: cvs.sourceforge.net:80 Accept: / Range: bytes=18949128-

---request end--- HTTP request sent, awaiting response... HTTP/1.1 502 Proxy Error Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 21:10:04 GMT Server: Apache/2.0.40 (Red Hat Linux) Content-Length: 441 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

Closing fd 1944 23:11:57 ERROR 502: Proxy Error.

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