fread showing HTTP error when read.csv does not

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
r
Domain
data

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Start by reproducing the fread and read.csv comparison described in the issue, using the example and session information in the attached fread_bug_report.pdf. Inspect fread's handling of web-hosted CSV input; done means the same CSV loads from the web without the reported HTTP error and the behavior is covered by a regression test.

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Description

fread

fread is able to correctly load a csv file that was downloaded to a local folder, but not the same csv file from the web. Function read.csv is able to correctly load the same csv file from the web. The issue was perceived in the following code as seen in the attached PDF, which also contains the session info. Also, I would note that I'm not running this behind any corporate firewall (although I also got the same error when I ran from behind a corporate firewall in another computer.)

fread_bug_report.pdf

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