Re: [Bug-wget] Connection closed vs read error

[Micah Cowan]

On 08/09/2012 12:42 AM, ptrk mj wrote:
> Greetings everyone,
> 
> I'd like to know what is the technical difference between
> 
> "Connection closed at byte x."
> and
> "Read error at byte x/y (Connection timed out)."

AIUI,

"Connection closed at byte x" means that the remote end closed the
connection while wget was still expecting to receive more data (as
judged by Content-Length or the like). Note that in cases where the
server doesn't tell us how much data to expect, you would never see this
message, since in that case there's no way to know whether the server
closed "early", or if it closed because it was properly finished sending
content.

"Read error at byte x/y (Connection timed out)." means that we simply
stopped receiving packets from the remote server (not even a
connection-closing packet), and the connection eventually timed out.

HTH,
-mjc