Re: [Edbrowse-dev] curl things

[Adam Thompson <arthompson1990@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 04:33:35PM -0500, Karl Dahlke wrote:
> https download example fails consistently for me, on two different machines.
> 
> curl 7.32.0
> OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11
> 
> curl 7.36.0
> OpenSSL 1.0.1e-fips 11
> 
> I upgraded from 1.0.1e-30.fc20 to 1.0.1e-40.fc20 just for grins.
> Probably got rid of heartbleed bug, but didn't fix background download.
> read error right away.
> Well if it works for everyone but me
> then maybe we shouldn't spend a lot of time tracking it down.
> I wasn't asking for the feature in the first place.

True, I'm concerned as to why it's doing this in some, but not all,
versions of curl. What os are you running;
if I get time I'll set up a couple of virtual machines to try and reproduce this.

> > is there any way we could have a command to tell you
> > what downloads are currently in progress?
> 
> maintain a dynamic array of background downloads, file name and child pid,
> catch signal 18, signal handler removes child from the list.
> Yes it could be done.

That sounds like a sensible design. How tricky would it be to implement?

Cheers,
Adam.

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