Re: [Lynx-dev] large files

[Thorsten Glaser]

Bogus Strawman dixit:

>I can't download large files with lynx - it dies on the "traditional"
>2097151 KB limit - it just hangs with no error message. I tried
>compiling it myself - version 2.8.7rel.1 - checked the config log and
>it reported no special handling was required for large files. I tried
>this on centos 5 and SUSE 10 sp2.

May be the webserver. Some, including mine (Apache derivate...) cannot
handle large files on 32-bit platforms because they use long instead
of off_t proper for indicating file sizes (and they happily send a
wrong file size to the client instead of none at all).

//mirabilos
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