Comment 7 for bug 68758

Nice catch!

Confirmed:

--16:00:58--
ftp://darkstar.ist.utl.pt/pub/ubuntu/releases/dvd/ubuntu-6.10-dvd-i386.iso
           => `ubuntu-6.10-dvd-i386.iso'
Resolving darkstar.ist.utl.pt... 193.136.198.175
Connecting to darkstar.ist.utl.pt|193.136.198.175|:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD /pub/ubuntu/releases/dvd ... done.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR ubuntu-6.10-dvd-i386.iso ... done.
Length: 3,725,318,144 (3.5G) (unauthoritative)

The same file through ftp works.

On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:47 +0000, Martin Jürgens wrote:
> The link provided from you is a FTP link (the HTTP link forwards to a
> FTP server), which seems to work fine using wget.
>
> I believe that wget only fails when downloading a big file using HTTP.
>
> ** Summary changed:
>
> - Wget does not support large file sizes
> + Wget does not support large file sizes using HTTP
>