Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2014 16:31:37 +0100 From: Michael Gmelin <freebsd@grem.de> To: Dag-Erling =?UTF-8?B?U23DuHJncmF2?= <des@des.no> Cc: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org>, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>, FreeBSD ports list <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: r341435: deletion of graphics/fotoxx Message-ID: <20140128163137.270226a2@bsd64.grem.de> In-Reply-To: <86ppncb3iu.fsf@nine.des.no> References: <52E6A7E8.90301@gwdg.de> <52E6A9FB.7080602@gwdg.de> <20140127194905.GD33006@ithaqua.etoilebsd.net> <52E6C085.4050808@gwdg.de> <20140127233352.4d82aad1@bsd64.grem.de> <86y520bewn.fsf@nine.des.no> <52E785ED.2040504@gwdg.de> <86ppncb3iu.fsf@nine.des.no>
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On Tue, 28 Jan 2014 15:10:49 +0100 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav <des@des.no> wrote: > Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de> writes: > > In the meantime, the author of fotoxx, Michael Cornelison, answered > > to me two times. Mike confirms, that the file is fetchable from > > different Linux systems and that in his eyes, there is no problem > > with reported and de facto file length. > > > > Trying to load fotoxx-14.01.1.tar.gz via ftp/wget seems to work > > without problems and gives me a file length of 2696186 (!) bytes. > > > > So I am irritated which file length is right and what's going on > > here ... >=20 > What's going on is that the server accepts persistent connections but > does not have a request timeout set, so libfetch, due to an unexpected > interaction between multiple buffering layers, hangs waiting for more > data while the server hangs waiting for the next request; then > libfetch times out and doesn't notice that it already received > exactly the amount of data it expected. Most servers have very short > request timeouts, so they close the connection while libfetch is > waiting, which libfetch interprets as an EOF (which is an expected > condition as long as it received all the data it wanted) as opposed > to a timeout (which is an error). Anyway, it was fixed in head in > r261230. >=20 Thank you. --=20 Michael Gmelin
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