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

[ptrk mj]

Thanks for sheding light on it. It's important to understand what's going on.

ptrkmj

On 8/9/12, Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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
>