FTP puzzle?

[Igor Peshansky]

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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