Re: LFS Browser support

From: Andrey Shorin <tolsty@dont-contact.us>
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 07:45:13 +0400

> It seems that the Mozilla and Internet Explorer doesn't support at all file
> bigger than 2 GB.
> - On Windows Mozilla reports negative size during file transfer, Internet
> Explorer refuses to download files bigger than 2 GB.
> - On Linux Mozilla reports file size truncated to 2 GB.
>
> I have tried some Fedora and Mandrake mirrors with identical results:
>
> ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/
> ftp://ftp.chl.chalmers.se/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/
> http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/3/i386/iso/
> http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/fedora.redhat.com/3/i386/iso/
>
> All test give identical results using Squid with LFS running on both Linux
> and Windows or direct Internet connection.
>
> So, is my impression correct ?
>
> What client can be used to test Squid LFS support ?
>
Opera 6.02 worked fine for me both for direct & through proxy (2.5.STABLE9-NT-CVS) tranfer.
I downloaded 3542 M file, Apache/2.0.53-dev (Win32) being a web server.

Andrey Shorin
System/Web Administration Consultant
Received on Mon Apr 25 2005 - 23:13:28 MDT

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