Someone give me a link to a really huge file (bigger than 4gb) to download.

notfred

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I need a link to a file over 4gb, that's available via HTTP.

Torrent files do not use HTTP, it must be a plain HTTP web link.

Any file is fine, I don't care what it is, as long as it's bigger than 4gb, and hopefully on a fast server.

Thanks.
 

Howard

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NASA might have an ultra-high-res picture floating around on their site, I know I've seen one in the GBs.
 

drinkmorejava

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hmm, I have America's Army which is 2.5 gigs. I don't believe apache even works be default with files larger than 2 gigs or something. I know I had to use HTTPS to get it to give me more than a 0 byte download.
 

notfred

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2.5Gb, 3.4GB, and 3789mb are all smaller than 4gb, guys.

I'm testing what happens when I try to download a file larger than 4gb onto a partition with a 4gb maximum file size limit. So, my file needs to be bigger than 4gb.
 

Pepsi90919

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Originally posted by: notfred
2.5Gb, 3.4GB, and 3789mb are all smaller than 4gb, guys.

I'm testing what happens when I try to download a file larger than 4gb onto a partition with a 4gb maximum file size limit. So, my file needs to be bigger than 4gb.

3.4GB is larger than 4gb.
 

SSP

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Originally posted by: notfred
2.5Gb, 3.4GB, and 3789mb are all smaller than 4gb, guys.

I'm testing what happens when I try to download a file larger than 4gb onto a partition with a 4gb maximum file size limit. So, my file needs to be bigger than 4gb.

Trying this on a fat32 partition?
 

Howard

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Why don't you zip up a crapload of files using no compression so that the resulting file is > 4GB, then copy it over to the partition?
 

drinkmorejava

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if it's windows all it's going to say is like "cyclic redundancy error or out of disk space." You could always locally set up an apache server and download some random large zip file(with no compression).
 

Syringer

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Originally posted by: Howard
Why don't you zip up a crapload of files using no compression so that the resulting file is > 4GB, then copy it over to the partition?

:thumbsup:
 

0roo0roo

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Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: notfred
2.5Gb, 3.4GB, and 3789mb are all smaller than 4gb, guys.

I'm testing what happens when I try to download a file larger than 4gb onto a partition with a 4gb maximum file size limit. So, my file needs to be bigger than 4gb.

Trying this on a fat32 partition?

it just fails as far as i know. you aren't going to get around the fat32 limitation. i use ntsf because of those big ol .ts hdtv rip files;) much bigger than 4gb:p
 

notfred

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Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: notfred
2.5Gb, 3.4GB, and 3789mb are all smaller than 4gb, guys.

I'm testing what happens when I try to download a file larger than 4gb onto a partition with a 4gb maximum file size limit. So, my file needs to be bigger than 4gb.

Trying this on a fat32 partition?

it just fails as far as i know. you aren't going to get around the fat32 limitation. i use ntsf because of those big ol .ts hdtv rip files;) much bigger than 4gb:p

I'm not trying to test the FAT32 filesystem, I'm trying to test the software used for downloading the file from the internet and saving it to the filesystem. What it *should* do, is warn the user that he can't save the file to that drive before it starts downloading.

What it shouldn't do is download 4GB of data, then fail after hours and hours of downloading.

I can't test this without 4GB of data somewhere on the internet, though.
 

eelw

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Yeah, don't think it will be smart enough to warn the user than you can't save a file that large.
 

JasonCoder

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Originally posted by: notfred
Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
Originally posted by: SSP
Originally posted by: notfred
2.5Gb, 3.4GB, and 3789mb are all smaller than 4gb, guys.

I'm testing what happens when I try to download a file larger than 4gb onto a partition with a 4gb maximum file size limit. So, my file needs to be bigger than 4gb.

Trying this on a fat32 partition?

it just fails as far as i know. you aren't going to get around the fat32 limitation. i use ntsf because of those big ol .ts hdtv rip files;) much bigger than 4gb:p

I'm not trying to test the FAT32 filesystem, I'm trying to test the software used for downloading the file from the internet and saving it to the filesystem. What it *should* do, is warn the user that he can't save the file to that drive before it starts downloading.

What it shouldn't do is download 4GB of data, then fail after hours and hours of downloading.

I can't test this without 4GB of data somewhere on the internet, though.

Then what you're looking for is the http header that specifies file size. Do the following:

- research what the header value is (probably Content-Length)
- craft a page somewhere that when requested passes this header down.
- hit said page with your app. This should trigger what you want.
- have a :beer: