[ python-Bugs-1016880 ] urllib.urlretrieve silently truncates downloads

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Bugs item #1016880, was opened at 2004-08-26 08:58
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>Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
>Priority: 6
Submitted By: David Abrahams (david_abrahams)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: urllib.urlretrieve silently truncates downloads

Initial Comment:
The following script appears to be unreliable on all 
versions of Python we can find.  The file being 
downloaded is approximately 34 MB.  Browsers such as 
IE and Mozilla have no problem downloading the whole 
thing.

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import urllib
import os

os.chdir('/tmp')
urllib.urlretrieve
('http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cvstarballs/boost-
cvsroot.tar.bz2',
                  'boost-cvsroot.tar.bz2')


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>Comment By: Raymond Hettinger (rhettinger)
Date: 2004-08-26 12:09

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Confirmed.  On Py2.4 (current CVS), I got 12.7 Mb before the
connection closed.

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