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 23:38:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0605071937460.8195@access1.cims.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060507230317.GC5992@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
On Sun, 7 May 2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 06:35:54PM -0400, Igor Peshansky wrote:
> >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.
>
> Personally, I've only tried this with hippos and the resulting carnage
> of downloading only .79237 of a hippo convinced me never to try such an
> activity again.
"There's more than one way to skin a hippo"? :-)
Of course, it depends on exactly *which* .79237 of the hippo you've
downloaded...
Igor
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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
2006-05-07 23:03 ` Christopher Faylor
2006-05-07 23:38 ` Igor Peshansky [this message]
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