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

David Abrahams dave at boost-consulting.com
Fri Aug 27 00:45:47 CEST 2004

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

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):

Okay, that tells me something... but shouldn't urllib throw an exception in case of a problem... or shouldn't it do something to retry?

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