Re: [Bug-wget] Re: Fwd: wget file-size parsing bug when doing FTP mirroring?

[Niek Bergboer]

Ah... I just saw that my distribution (Ubuntu Server 8.04) sported a
really old wget (1.10.2); I just compiled 1.11.4 from source, and that
solves the problem. Sorry for my rambling here ;)

Niek

On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 16:49, Niek Bergboer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Petr,
>
> Yes, I can reproduce it. The behaviour I get is the following:
>
> * On files < 10,000,000 bytes, the timestamp is used correctly, and I
> indeed get the message  Remote file no newer than local file
> `router/pub/TEMP/testdir/Sent_Items.dbx' -- not retrieving., as you
> get.
> * On files >= 10,000,000 bytes, I get the problem I mentioned; wget
> seems to think that the size is different.
>
> Niek
>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 15:12, Petr Pisar <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2009-04-01, Niek Bergboer <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...snip...]
>>> -rw-rw-r--   1 guest    everyone 91892436 Sep 13  2003 Sent Items.dbx
>>> [...snip...]
>>>
>>> Mostly as expected. However, wget then tells me:
>>>
>>> The sizes do not match (local 91892436) -- retrieving.
>>> ftp://username:address@hidden/some/remote/dir/Sent%20Items.dbx
>>>
>>> ... and gets the entire ~90MB file again, despite the fact that the
>>> sizes are in fact equal. This seems to occur for all files >=
>>> 10,000,000 bytes.
>>>
>> Can you reproduce it?
>>
>> I tried to reproduce it, but without any success. I mirrored
>> subdirectory with file (having same size, date and name as yours) from
>> vsftpd FTP server running on Linux using wget-1.11.4 to Linux client. On
>> second mirror I got message:
>>
>> Remote file no newer than local file `router/pub/TEMP/testdir/Sent
>> Items.dbx' -- not retrieving.
>>
>> So for some reason your wget does not check timestamp.
>>
>> -- Petr
>>
>>
>>
>>
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