"The server did not return the file size. The URL may point to dynamic content."

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I'm using the BITS service to download large files (1GB+). The BITS client I wrote registers callback functions that execute when a BITS job finishes transferring or encounters an error. Everything works fine when I download relatively small files. However, when I try to download a 1.8GB file I get the following error from the BITS service:

"The server did not return the file size. The URL may point to dynamic content."

The URL I am trying to download in this case points to a single 1.8GB file and does not point to dynamic content. I've been able to successfully download files up to 500MB in size. Anybody have any ideas about what might be going wrong here? Perhaps there is a timeout that expires while the BITS client waits for a response regarding the file size?

Contributed By: Sudheer GN [MSFT]
There is a known issue with BITS in Windows 2000 SP3, where it fails to download files greater than 1,000,000,000 bytes (~953 MB). This has been fixed in Windows 2000 SP4. Please download SP4 to fix the problem.

Please see:

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downloads/servicepacks/sp4/default.asp

for information on downloading SP4.
 

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