On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 09:29:48AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 11:49:39PM +0300, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > > You can reproduce the bug like this: > > curl -o iputils-20071127-10.fc13.x86_64.rpm --range 1384-1400 ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/mirrors/fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/iputils-20071127-10.fc13.x86_64.rpm > > > > It gives error "(28) FTP response timeout" after around one minute. > > (1384 is the size of the header in many rpms). > > That command worked fine for me, with curl-7.21.0-5.fc14.x86_64, but I > realized that it worked because I was using a proxy. So I would > suggest people do: > > unset ftp_proxy > > before running the test. The command fails in the way you described > without a proxy. > > I looked at the trace (curl -v) and it looks like the FTP server > itself is not responding correctly. The problem does not seem to be > the REST command, but the short RETR: curl only downloads 17 bytes > then closes the connection, but this appears to confuse the FTP > server. The FTP server appears to die when this happens, whereas I > think I would expect it to send an error message on the control > connection. > Yes, indeed, it seems more likely a bug in the FTP server (pure-ftpd), but it would be very nice to have a workaround in curl or in anaconda for it.. I'm sure ftp.funet.fi is not the only Fedora mirror running pure-ftpd. -- Pasi -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
