[Interest] Can't download file with QNetworkAccessManager: "connection closed"

[Mandeep Sandhu]

On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/06/14 07:48, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>> Em dom 08 jun 2014, às 06:05:20, Nikos Chantziaras escreveu:
>>> It fails even without the redirection. I only used "sf.net" instead of
>>> "sourceforge.net" in order to make the code smaller for posting here. So
>>> this will also fail:
>>>
>>>     QNetworkRequest request(QUrl("http://qtads.sourceforge.net/COPYING"));
>>
>> I can reproduce it here. Traffic sniffing and strace reveal it's a server bug. The
>> server closed the connection.
>>[...]
>> $ curl -A Mozilla/5.0 http://qtads.sourceforge.net/COPYING
>> curl: (56) Recv failure: Connection reset by peer
>>
>> Like I said, server bug.
>
> Thanks, Thiago. It seems Mozilla/5.0 is the only user-agent this happens
> with. Could it be that there's some reason to reject connections with
> that user-agent? If yes, it might be a good idea to change the default
> user-agent set by Qt.

I thought "Mozilla/5.0" was used to specifically _avoid_ such issues!!
Ironically it seems to be the cause of one now!

-mandeep

>
> I reported this in SF's tracker:
>
>    https://sourceforge.net/p/forge/site-support/7857/
>
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