Wget "File size limit exceeded(core dumped)"

Claude Jones claude_jones at levitjames.com
Mon Oct 9 13:57:37 UTC 2006


On Mon October 9 2006 9:45 am, Linux Geeks wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> On 10/9/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
>  You could try using curl, or upgrade to a more recent
> distribution that has a version of wget that supports large
> files.
>
>
>
>  I'm trying using curl
>
>  curl -C - -o myfile http://www.mysite.com/file
>
>  but then it has error message like this :
>
>  HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges
>
>  Quite depressing with this :)
>
>  Regards,
>
>  Feris
>  

I don't know where you're trying this download from, but, on our 
own server, we ran into this problem. It turned out to be running 
an older version of Apache which can't deal with file sizes 
greater than 2GB - maybe your problem is server side. 
-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA




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