Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 87648
Instant ISO Server Problem
Last modified: 2008-04-21 10:58:51 EDT
Description of problem: Following the instructions to fetch an ISO using curl per the web site gives this error upon resuming a transfer: $ curl -C - -O 'http://rhn.redhat.com/download/1049128277/f9766a198ec7a711c08e3662f41c3217e63886a4/314115/7705/local/isos/Shrike/shrike-i386-disc2.iso' ** Resuming transfer from byte position 150177507 % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:50 --:--:-- 0 curl: (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. At least when the server is up. :/ Steps to Reproduce: 1. Log into RHN. 2. Follow instructions to grab instant ISO using curl. 3. Have transfer interrupted. 4. Resume transfer with same curl command. 5. Observe error message. Actual results: Error message: curl: (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume. Expected results: Shiny new ISO. Additional info: Even with a fat pipe an ISO image is no small file. Resuming file transfers can be a good thing. :)
typically this message is when the URL expires (they have finite lifetime). returning to the ISO page and getting a new URL for the same ISO image should allow you to reusme from where you left off
Cleaning out the bz backlog. Since it has been quite a while, and I can resume downloads as outlined above, I'm going to close and second Chip's explanation.