[BUG] busybox wget doesn't download more than 4k of data, without any progress bar, and exits succesfully

[Gilles Espinasse]

Selon "gotrunks at gmail.com" <gotrunks at gmail.com>:

> package: busybox
> versions 1.18.x (1.18.0 and 1.18.3 tested)
>
> when I try to download something, like google home page:
> netol at edward:~/dev/busybox-1.18.3$ ./busybox wget http://www.google.cat
> Connecting to www.google.cat (74.125.230.82:80)
> netol at edward:~/dev/busybox-1.18.3$ ls -l index.html
> -rw-r--r-- 1 netol netol 4096 Feb 11 13:36 index.html
>
>
> with version 1.17.4:
>
> netol at edward:~/dev/busybox-1.17.4$ ./busybox wget http://www.google.cat
> Connecting to www.google.cat (74.125.230.83:80)
> index.html           100% |******************************************|
>  9222  --:--:-- ETA
> netol at edward:~/dev/busybox-1.17.4$ ls -l index.html
> -rw-r--r-- 1 netol netol 9222 Feb 11 13:44 index.html
>
>
> busybox-1.17.4/index.html is correct
> busybox-1.18.3/index.html is trunked
>
> I'm using Debian 6.0 and Ubuntu 10.10, 32 bits. Compiling with default
> options.
>
>
> Regards,
> Pere.

You should try applying 1.18.3 patches as there is a patch for wget.
http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.18.3/

If that does not work, send your .config

Gilles