Re: size problem of large file transfer over https
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] gqg8ru$4j6$1@ger.gmane.org>, H.S. wrote:
>> I have a large data tar file of 4.4 GB. I have made it available over
>> https to be downloaded by the recipient. This is on a Debian Sid, 2.6.26
>> kernel and the partition is ext3.
>>
>> When the remote user clicks on that download link, his browser is
>> showing the file size to be only around 130 MB. The client is a Windows
>> XP machine where the drive is NTFS formatted.
>>
>> I am not well versed with apache server. Have it somehow hit a limit set
>> in the https server? If not what gives?
>
> It's probably not a problem with the Apache server. Instead, it is probably
> an issue with the Windows client. The size reported by the Apache server is
> probably overflowing a 32-bit unsigned integer. I'm pretty sure the NTFS
> supports 4.4G files, but that doesn't mean that every client (or server) is
> prepared to see a size that large.
>
> Could you post the results of an HTTP HEAD request for the file? I'm
> particularly interested in what Apache is sending as the value of the
> Content-Length header. If you don't have another tool in mind for this,
> wget should be able to show you these headers.
>
> If the Content-Length is correct, it is a problem client-side. If the
> Content-Length is incorrect, it is a problem server-side.
I gave it a shot myself with my own machine using Iceape browser and I
also see the size as around 132 MB. I am trying from a Debian Testing
machine (ext3 partition).
Here is the request I see if I try using wget:
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 138256384 (132M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `datafile.tar'
18% [==================> ] 25,657,344 11.1M/s ^C
So something is messed with the server. How do I go about checking what?
Thanks.
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