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bug #20416: wget needs a way to request a range of bytes (--range option?)

Submitter:  Noël Köthe <nok>
Submitted:  Mon 09 Jul 2007 08:48:49 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Feature Request Severity:  2 - Minor
Priority:  4 Status:  Needs Discussion
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  Open
Release:  1.10.2 Operating System:  GNU/Linux
Reproducibility:  Every Time Fixed Release:  None
Planned Release:  1.14 Regression:  Yes
Work Required:  None Patch Included:  Yes
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Tue 16 Oct 2012 11:10:11 AM UTC, comment #6: 

Are there any news on this bug? The link to patch in comment #3 doesn't work.

Thanks!

 Tomas Hozza <thozza>
Fri 24 Sep 2010 05:28:50 PM UTC, comment #5: 

http://loansharks.livejournal.com/

 Anonymous
Thu 13 Nov 2008 02:53:02 AM UTC, comment #4: 

Additional suggestions, including a "--replace-range" option, at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.general/8421

 Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Wed 22 Oct 2008 04:10:14 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Patch for this at http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.wget.patches/2468

Tentatively retargetting for 1.12.

 Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Fri 19 Sep 2008 01:25:34 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Hallo,

this bug #20416 can be fixed in this way:

$ cd wget-1.11.4/src
$ diff http.c http.c.bak
2167c2167
<   if ((contrange != 0 && contrange != hs->restval && hs->restval != 0 )
---

>   if ((contrange != 0 && contrange != hs->restval)


Regards

 Anonymous
Mon 09 Jul 2007 08:59:08 PM UTC, comment #1: 

I don't think that wget should be expected to handle a 206 response that it wasn't expecting (wget doesn't "know" it specified a Range header). A better way to do this would be to offer a --range option, and handle that. This has actually already been requested (but no bug report existed for it yet). Some further discussion will need to take place, though, as to how to handle this in certain situations (for instance, if we're using -c and the file already exists, should it "rewrite" the applicable portion of the existing file?).

I'm rewriting the summary from "wget doesn't try to read 206/partial content response", to address the core need.

Noèl: FYI, the Code Architecture category is actually intended to apply to code design/structure rather than to any functional changes.

 Micah Cowan <micahcowan>
Mon 09 Jul 2007 08:48:49 PM UTC, original submission:  

Hello,

a forwarded bug report from http://bugs.debian.org/335777

"When I add a byte-range header to a wget request, wget doesn't seem to
try to read the response body from the server, and thinks it should
retry.

wget -O /dev/null  -S --header="Range: bytes=0-100" http://www.debian.org/

HTTP request sent, awaiting response...
  HTTP/1.1 206 Partial Content
  <snip>
  Accept-Ranges: bytes
  Content-Length: 101
  Content-Range: bytes 0-100/14366
  Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=100
  Connection: Keep-Alive
  Content-Type: text/html
  Content-Language: en
Retrying.

(setting retries to 1 it still fails to read the response).

The wget in stable 1.9.1-12 reads the response body in the case of the 206 as expected."

thx.

-email is unavailable-

Noël Köthe <nok>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2009-06-11 micahcowan Planned Release1.12 1.14
    2008-11-04 micahcowan Priority5 - Normal 4
    2008-10-22 micahcowan Planned Release1.14 1.12
        Patch IncludedNone Yes
    2008-08-21 micahcowan Planned Release1.15 1.14
    2007-07-20 micahcowan StatusNone Needs Discussion
        RegressionNone Yes
    2007-07-20 micahcowan CategoryNone Feature Request
        Severity3 - Normal 2 - Minor
        Planned ReleaseNone 1.15
    2007-07-09 micahcowan CategoryCode Architecture None
        Summarywget doesn\'t try to read 206/partial content response wget needs a way to request a range of bytes (--range option?)

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