[Python-Dev] Re: urllib.urlretrieve

[David Abrahams]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:

>> Is there a known reliability problem with urllib.urlretrieve?  I'm
>> getting silent truncation of downloaded files.
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1016880&group_id=5470&atid=105470
>>
>> has the details.
>
> sourceforge is known to have reliability problems when downloading
> large files.  here's a wget session on my machine (okay, it's not a silent
> truncation, but SF is clearly not well):

Okay, that tells me something... but shouldn't urllib throw an
exception in case of a problem... or shouldn't it do something to
retry?

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Dave Abrahams
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