[wget-notify] [bug #22251] Host-terminated download resumes but with a different filename

[anonymous]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?22251>

                 Summary: Host-terminated download resumes but with a
different filename
                 Project: GNU Wget
            Submitted by: None
            Submitted on: Thursday 02/07/2008 at 19:34 UTC
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
         Originator Name: J. David Bryan
        Originator Email: jdbryan at acm.org
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 1.11
        Operating System: Microsoft Windows
         Reproducibility: None
           Fixed Release: None
         Planned Release: None
              Regression: Yes
           Work Required: None
          Patch Included: No

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Details:

When a host terminates a download connection prematurely, wget automatically
retries the remainder of the download.  However, instead of appending the
remainder of the content to the original file, it is written to a new file.

This is a regression from 1.10.2, which correctly appended the resumed
download to the original file.  Note also that aborting wget 1.11 manually
during a transfer and resuming with "-c" correctly appends to the original
file.  It's just the automatic resumption on a lost host connection that
doesn't.

Workaround: combine the files containing the various pieces of the download.

See the attached file for a transcript.  Produced by wget 1.11 under WinXP SP
2.




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Date: Thursday 02/07/2008 at 19:34 UTC  Name: wget-1.11-bug.txt  Size: 1kB  
By: None
wget session transcript
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=14987>

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