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FTP error when downloading file from a HTTP server with retry and continue-at arguments #2464

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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.

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