Path: csiph.com!1.us.feeder.erje.net!3.us.feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Paul Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-xp,alt.windows7.general,microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Windows 32-bit Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 14:21:17 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2023 19:21:19 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1cbb94212258b93a136aaba9d978ee5d"; logging-data="4132818"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18Yijk6sGZWKXUtfPz63EnEuffyt/MVDgY=" User-Agent: Ratcatcher/2.0.0.25 (Windows/20130802) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ez7T37ZD9MJPNV4KumKurVlIXOY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.ms-windows.misc:663 alt.comp.os.windows-xp:7825 microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:161325 On 11/19/2023 11:57 AM, Java Jive wrote: > On 19/11/2023 08:17, Paul wrote: >> >> I discovered, while trying to figure out a solution for you, that archive.org >> seems to have placed a 2GB file limit on downloads. If I try to download >> a virtual machine file which is archived on the site (some of those are 5GB), >> the download stops at 2GB. I tried about three different files, and the >> response was the same. I used aria2c downloader (which has restart capability), >> and if you try to restart a download at the 2GB mark, archive.org refuses to >> respond. > > I always hesitate to disagree with you, Paul, but IME today the above is NOT true.  I set the download service on my QNAP NAS to download ... > >     https://archive.org/download/digital_river/x17-58996.iso > > ... and it downloaded successfully.  In particular, I watched it roll over the 2GB downloaded mark with no perceptible glitch, the resulting file size is the advertised 2.39 GB, the ISO opens successfully in 7-zip, and its SHA1 agrees with that given for it on the parent directory/page. > > I think you must have a different problem somewhere? > I have a theory. It's possible that archive.org , archived some of the downloads when the Microsoft servers had the "download bug". There was a period of time, where Microsoft servers were truncating downloads. A symptom, is both parties to the download are satisfied the download is complete. But the file can be short, by up to a gigabyte. I've just started downloading a digitalriver sample, like yourself, and when I get back, we'll see whether this one is "regular size". The damage then, could actually be recorded on the server that way. If you believe the left column is size-in-bytes here, then this list is anomalous as well, and may be stored (incorrectly) on the server like that. Maybe these weren't DigitalRiver, but were TechBench or similar. The collection may be "digital_river", but that does not mean Archive.org crawled digitalriver.com itself. Some user uploaded these as far as I know. https://ia801300.us.archive.org/30/items/digital_river/xxx17index_file.txt So rather than a protocol error, the content on the server may simply be damaged, and I've misinterpreted this as a protocol problem. Paul