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+ username="joey"
+ subject="""comment 1"""
+ date="2018-11-12T19:27:00Z"
+ content="""
+Thing is, git-annex does not always know the size of an annexed object,
+and also the same download function is used for downloading other things
+than annexed objects, which git-annex never knows the size of.
+So trying to paper over this problem by checking the size first wouldn't
+fix all cases.
+
+This is supposed to be handled by catching the 416 http error,
+and checking that the Content-Range header looks like "bytes */$size"
+which is at least one of the ways that http servers indicate the size of
+the file.
+
+But if a http server doesn't send such a Content-Range, 
+it's not clear what to do. It could, I suppose, just give up
+on resuming in that case, and re-download.
+
+Anyway, please show the output of `git annex version`, because this could
+potentially have to do with the version of http-client that git-annex was
+built with.
+
+Do you know of an url that still exists that can be used to reproduce this?
+"""]]