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bug #48123: wget clobbers file if partial download fails and retry is enabled

Submitter:  None
Submitted:  Sat 04 Jun 2016 08:25:29 AM UTC
   
 
Category:  Program Logic Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Status:  In Progress
Privacy:  Public Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  linuxrocks123 Originator Email:  -email is unavailable-
Open/Closed:  Open Release:  1.17.1
Operating System:  None Reproducibility:  None
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
Regression:  None Work Required:  None
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Wed 08 Jun 2016 08:22:09 AM UTC, comment #1: 

You are right regarding expected behavior (except the server doesn't recognize the Range header). I'll set up a test case to reproduce the issue.

Tim Ruehsen <rockdaboot>
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Sat 04 Jun 2016 08:25:29 AM UTC, original submission:  

The following command:

wget http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6544/Content/GetRecording?RecordedId=770

produced the following behavior:

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--2016-06-04 09:53:22--  http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6544/Content/GetRecording?RecordedId=770
Connecting to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6544... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4251523932 (4.0G) [video/mp2t]
Saving to: 'GetRecording?RecordedId=770'

GetRecording?RecordedId=7  19%[======>                              ] 786.18M  1.27KB/s    in 5h 8m   

2016-06-04 15:01:47 (43.5 KB/s) - Read error at byte 824370342/4251523932 (Connection reset by peer). Retrying.

--2016-06-04 15:01:48--  (try: 2)  http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6544/Content/GetRecording?RecordedId=770
Connecting to 10.0.0.108:6544... failed: Connection timed out.
Retrying.

--2016-06-04 15:03:58--  (try: 3)  http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:6544/Content/GetRecording?RecordedId=770
Connecting to 10.0.0.108:6544... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 4251523932 (4.0G) [video/mp2t]
Saving to: 'GetRecording?RecordedId=770'

GetRecording?RecordedId=7   0%[                                     ] 621.60K  22.1KB/s    eta 4d 13h

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As is indicated by the output, the partially downloaded file from try 1 was clobbered.  Though I didn't use the -nc option or the -c option, per the man page, I believe this is a bug, as in this case it appears that a new file should have been created with the name "GetRecording?RecordedId=7.1".

Even if this is intended behavior, it is unexpected; I would have expected wget to attempt to retrieve partial content on an automatic retry whether or not I used -c.  In any case truncating the entire partially downloaded content on a retry is extremely destructive, and I think this behavior should only occur if explicitly requested.

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