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[Marc Lehmann]

On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 12:31:07PM +0500, Winston Smith <smith_winston_6079 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hm..... I don't have any experience with dl managers since I use wget
> usually. But I think this seems to be a general timeout problem. I can
> dl small files either, but when it comes to large files, I can dl then only
> when I'm on a host in Germany. Here in Australia, wget goes nuts and
> says things like this:

Well, as always, you don't control your proxy and don't know what it
does. If its transparent, then the server has no chance excewpt counting
all connections theough the proxy as coming from the same host.

> 14:09:11 (0.00 B/s) - Connection closed at byte 0. Retrying.

Most likely your proxy closes the conenction, but retries internally. That'S
not what it should do, but some people configure them that way.

> The funny thing is, although I told wget to retry infinite times (-t 0), 
> wget only
> retries three times.

Are you sure? In your example, it got successfuly got a 403 response with the
credentials you gave ("none").

> Something definitely goes wrong. If I could spot, what....

proxy

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