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It will likely generate corrupt files on the client as well.

• Aachen 2y ago
  Not very. The system might allocate that length ahead of time (I've seen that option in torrent clients and iirc ftp systems) but, latest by the time a FIN comes in, it'll know the file is finished and can truncate it. If finished-early downloads are not implemented despite it doing preallocation, that's still not a security bug
  • guappa 2y ago
    if a FIN comes, the client will mark the file as partially downloaded. but it might not come, since decades http sends more than one file per connection, so it might just get the beginning of the next reply, write that and the next reply will be corrupt as well.