From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: FTP puzzle?
Date: Sun, 07 May 2006 22:36:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0605071834570.8195@access1.cims.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Xns97BAEE38F79CAzzappergmailcom@80.91.229.5>
On Fri, 5 May 2006, zzapper wrote:
> Say I am uploading a very large file to a server, can someone else with
> an equally fast or slower download start to download before I've
> finished?
IIRC, the server will report the *actual* size of the file on disk, not
the "projected" size the file will have after your upload. So anyone
attempting to download the file before it's finished uploading will get a
truncated copy.
Igor
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-07 22:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-05 22:25 zzapper
2006-05-07 22:36 ` Igor Peshansky [this message]
2006-05-07 23:03 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-05-07 23:38 ` Igor Peshansky
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