[work around] Re: size problem of large file transfer over https
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> In <[🔎] gqgau4$e8k$1@ger.gmane.org>, H.S. wrote:
>> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>>>
>>> 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:
>> .
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
>> Length: 138256384 (132M) [application/x-tar]
>>
>> So something is messed with the server. How do I go about checking what?
>
> I am also not an expert in Apache, so this is about as far as I can take
> you. You should probably scan the Apache documentation for options
> pertaining to "big", "large", or "huge" files. (Or perhaps they are more
> technical and use the phrase 32-bit or >4G.) While you are doing that I'd
> hit an apache-specific list (and hope someone better versed replies here)
> with your query.
>
> If you don't get any (more) traction on the mailing lists and are fairly
> sure your setup is correct, so ahead and file a bug (if one doesn't already
> exist).
Well, I split the tar file to smaller chunks of 680M each (using the
split command).
$> split -d -b 680M /tmp/datafile.tar datfile
Now I am able to download the files successfully from the apache server
machine using wget. Apache reports the correct size now of Length:
713031680 (680M)
The only problem is that the remote user uses Windows and will need a
method to join them together back to the tar file. In Linux, one would
just cat them together. In Windows, I have searched google and found the
following will work on a command prompt:
copy /b datfile* datafile.tar /b
where datfilenn are the split files. This was from:
http://elliottback.com/wp/combine-split-files-in-windows/
The tar file then can be opened by using 7-zip in Windows.
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