diff -u lib/transfer.c ../curl-7.9-pre3/lib/transfer.c
--- lib/transfer.c	Sun Oct  7 04:54:24 2001
+++ ../curl-7.9-pre3/lib/transfer.c	Thu Aug 30 22:54:04 2001
@@ -213,8 +213,7 @@
   struct connectdata *conn = (struct connectdata *)c_conn;
   char *buf;
   int maxfd;
-  char maxrange[40]="";
-  
+
   data = conn->data; /* there's the root struct */
   buf = data->state.buffer;
   maxfd = (conn->sockfd>conn->writesockfd?conn->sockfd:conn->writesockfd)+1;
@@ -469,17 +468,14 @@
                    */
                   if(data->set.no_body)
                     return CURLE_OK;
+
                   if(!conn->bits.close) {
                     /* If this is not the last request before a close, we must
                        set the maximum download size to the size of the
                        expected document or else, we won't know when to stop
                        reading! */
                     if(-1 != conn->size)
-                      if(conn->maxdownload == -1 || conn->maxdownload > conn->size) {
-					  	infof(data, "Resetting max download from %ld to %ld\n", conn->maxdownload, conn->size);
-					    conn->maxdownload = conn->size;
-					  } else if(conn->maxdownload != -1 && conn->maxdownload < conn->size)
-					  	conn->size = conn->maxdownload;
+                      conn->maxdownload = conn->size;
 
                     /* If max download size is *zero* (nothing) we already
                        have nothing and can safely return ok now! */
@@ -561,19 +557,8 @@
               /* check for Content-Length: header lines to get size */
               if (strnequal("Content-Length:", p, 15) &&
                   sscanf (p+15, " %ld", &contentlength)) {
-				  	if((conn->maxdownload!=-1) && (contentlength > conn->maxdownload)) {
-        				if (conn->bits.rangestringalloc == TRUE) 
-            				free(conn->range);
-        				snprintf(maxrange, sizeof(maxrange), "0-%ld", conn->maxdownload);
-
-        				/* tell ourselves to fetch this range */
-        				conn->range = strdup(maxrange);
-        				conn->bits.use_range = TRUE;        /* enable range download */
-        				conn->bits.rangestringalloc = TRUE; /* mark range string allocated */
-						contentlength=conn->maxdownload;
-					}
-	    			conn->size = contentlength;
-	   	            Curl_pgrsSetDownloadSize(data, conn->size);
+                conn->size = contentlength;
+                Curl_pgrsSetDownloadSize(data, contentlength);
               }
               else if((httpversion == 10) &&
                       conn->bits.httpproxy &&
@@ -770,7 +755,7 @@
                 Curl_httpchunk_read(conn, str, nread, &nread);
 
               if(CHUNKE_OK < res) {
-                failf(data, "Receive problem in the chunk parser");
+                failf(data, "Receeived problem in the chunky parser");
                 return CURLE_READ_ERROR;
               }
               else if(CHUNKE_STOP == res) {
diff -u lib/url.c ../curl-7.9-pre3/lib/url.c
--- lib/url.c	Sun Oct  7 03:56:36 2001
+++ ../curl-7.9-pre3/lib/url.c	Mon Sep  3 07:01:49 2001
@@ -239,8 +239,6 @@
 
     /* Set the default size of the SSL session ID cache */
     data->set.ssl.numsessions = 5;
-	
-	data->set.maxdownload = -1;
 
     /* create an array with connection data struct pointers */
     data->state.numconnects = 5; /* hard-coded right now */
@@ -340,12 +338,6 @@
       }
     }
     break;
-  case CURLOPT_MAXDOWNLOAD:
-    /* 
-     * Hard limit on download size, not pretty, use with care
-     */
-    data->set.maxdownload = va_arg(param, long);
-    break;
   case CURLOPT_FORBID_REUSE:
     /*
      * When this transfer is done, it must not be left to be reused by a
@@ -1412,8 +1404,7 @@
   conn->bits.proxy_user_passwd = data->set.proxyuserpwd?1:0;
 
   /* maxdownload must be -1 on init, as 0 is a valid value! */
-  conn->maxdownload = data->set.maxdownload;  /* might have been used previously! */
-  infof(data, "Setting download limit to %ld\n", conn->maxdownload);
+  conn->maxdownload = -1;  /* might have been used previously! */
 
   /* Store creation time to help future close decision making */
   conn->created = Curl_tvnow();
@@ -2115,8 +2106,7 @@
     conn->bits.reuse = TRUE; /* yes, we're re-using here */
     conn->bits.chunk = FALSE; /* always assume not chunked unless told
                                  otherwise */
-    conn->maxdownload = data->set.maxdownload;  
-    infof(data, "Resetting download limit to %ld\n", conn->maxdownload);
+    conn->maxdownload = -1;  /* might have been used previously! */
 
     free(old_conn);          /* we don't need this anymore */
 
diff -u lib/urldata.h ../curl-7.9-pre3/lib/urldata.h
--- lib/urldata.h	Sun Oct  7 02:56:54 2001
+++ ../curl-7.9-pre3/lib/urldata.h	Sun Oct  7 02:04:11 2001
@@ -504,7 +504,6 @@
   long infilesize;      /* size of file to upload, -1 means unknown */
   long low_speed_limit; /* bytes/second */
   long low_speed_time;  /* number of seconds */
-  long maxdownload;  /* hard limit on maximum size of download */
   int set_resume_from;  /* continue [ftp] transfer from here */
   char *cookie;         /* HTTP cookie string to send */
   struct curl_slist *headers; /* linked list of extra headers */