On Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 03:56:10PM +1000, NormW wrote:
> Got an NT 4/SP6 box with IE55sp2 and every time I try to download the
> new Windows release of Ethereal(0.8.20), the download terminates early
> by truncating the amount to download;...sometimes it will get 2MB, other
> times 6.3MB but what ever it has got so far, the Message displays
> "Download Complete xxx bytes", with the download bar going straight from
> wherever it is at to 100%....Is this something wrong: 1) at your end,
> 2)with my machine or 3)windows in general?
With your machine, with Windows in general, or with IE 5.5 in
particular, I suspect.
I generally download it with Netscape 4.x on NT 4; try installing
Netscape, if you don't already have it installed, and see if you can
download it.
If I try using the classic HTTP client "telnet", I get:
% telnet www.ethereal.com 80
Trying 65.208.228.222...
Connected to www.ethereal.com.
Escape character is '^]'.
HEAD http://www.ethereal.com/distribution/win32/ethereal-setup-0.8.20.exe HTTP/1.0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:28:22 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.17 (Unix) PHP/4.0.4pl1
Last-Modified: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 19:16:47 GMT
ETag: "2406d-6d1462-3bcdd91f"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 7148642
Connection: close
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Connection closed by foreign host.
so it looks as if it gives a reasonable size (that is, in fact, how
large the file is) and a reasonable Content-Type.
Perhaps IE 5.5 is mishandling the download.