On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:12:24AM -0800, Chris Brannon wrote:
> Karl Dahlke <eklhad@comcast.net> writes:
> 
> > As you see, download in the background works for http and ftp,
> > but not their secure versions,
> 
> That's strange.  The example works just fine for me.
> Usually, when I've seen the "cannot read data from the server" message,
> it indicates that the server closed the connection prematurely.  More
> often than not, it's just an intermittent failure.  Give it another go
> and tell me if it still fails for you.  If it does, libcurl is behaving
> differently between versions or something, and it's going to be fun to
> track down.

Ok, just got round to testing this and it seems to work for me also.
Out of interest, is there any way we could have a command to tell you what
downloads are currently in progress?

Cheers,
Adam.