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Re: FTP puzzle?
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
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- Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 18:35:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: FTP puzzle?
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On Fri, 5 May 2006, zzapper wrote:
> Say I am uploading a very large file to a server, can someone else with
> an equally fast or slower download start to download before I've
> finished?
IIRC, the server will report the *actual* size of the file on disk, not
the "projected" size the file will have after your upload. So anyone
attempting to download the file before it's finished uploading will get a
truncated copy.
Igor
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