Download a file which is already completely downloaded with the retry and continue-at option leads to a strange warning:
curl --continue-at - --retry 1 http://to/file -o file
** Resuming transfer from byte position 21009572
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
Warning: Transient problem: FTP error Will retry in 1 seconds. 1 retries left.
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 0
curl: (33) HTTP server doesn't seem to support byte ranges. Cannot resume.
This happens with master as of today on Arch Linux.