Handle connection being closed unexpectedly mid download

[hickford]

If the HTTP connection is closed part way through the response, wget will bork

$ wget http://download.sysinternals.com/files/SysinternalsSuite.zip
Length: 13080395 (12M) [application/x-zip-compressed]
Saving to: `SysinternalsSuite.zip.1'

99% [=====================================> ] 13,066,240  4.90K/s   in 37s

2012-10-08 11:31:28 (345 KB/s) - Connection closed at byte 13066240. Retrying.

Wget will retry the download. My browsers silently accept the truncated download. Httpie too silently accepts the truncated download. I don't know whether httpie should retry, but I think httpie should at least warn that the response is incomplete.

NB. The truncation of that particular request only happens in my dodgy network so you will need your own example to test this behaviour.

[hickford]

Good survey of behaviour in different HTTP clients http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2011/03/09/browsers-accommodate-incorrect-http-content-length-and-sites-depressingly-depend-on-it.aspx

[jkbrzt]

I'm considering adding a --download mode which would make HTTPie behave similarly to wget (progress bar, resume, etc).

Related: #97