diff --git a/urlgrabber/grabber.py b/urlgrabber/grabber.py
index e090e90..a26880c 100644
--- a/urlgrabber/grabber.py
+++ b/urlgrabber/grabber.py
@@ -439,6 +439,12 @@ try:
 except:
     __version__ = '???'
 
+try:
+    # this part isn't going to do much - need to talk to gettext
+    from i18n import _
+except ImportError, msg:
+    def _(st): return st
+    
 ########################################################################
 # functions for debugging output.  These functions are here because they
 # are also part of the module initialization.
@@ -1052,7 +1058,8 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
         self._reget_length = 0
         self._prog_running = False
         self._error = (None, None)
-        self.size = None
+        self.size = 0
+        self._hdr_ended = False
         self._do_open()
         
         
@@ -1085,9 +1092,14 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
             return -1
             
     def _hdr_retrieve(self, buf):
+        if self._hdr_ended:
+            self._hdr_dump = ''
+            self.size = 0
+            self._hdr_ended = False
+
         if self._over_max_size(cur=len(self._hdr_dump), 
                                max_size=self.opts.max_header_size):
-            return -1            
+            return -1
         try:
             self._hdr_dump += buf
             # we have to get the size before we do the progress obj start
@@ -1104,7 +1116,17 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
                     s = parse150(buf)
                 if s:
                     self.size = int(s)
-            
+                    
+            if buf.lower().find('location') != -1:
+                location = ':'.join(buf.split(':')[1:])
+                location = location.strip()
+                self.scheme = urlparse.urlsplit(location)[0]
+                self.url = location
+                
+            if len(self._hdr_dump) != 0 and buf == '\r\n':
+                self._hdr_ended = True
+                if DEBUG: DEBUG.info('header ended:')
+                
             return len(buf)
         except KeyboardInterrupt:
             return pycurl.READFUNC_ABORT
@@ -1136,6 +1158,7 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.PROGRESSFUNCTION, self._progress_update)
         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.FAILONERROR, True)
         self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.OPT_FILETIME, True)
+        self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.FOLLOWLOCATION, True)
         
         if DEBUG:
             self.curl_obj.setopt(pycurl.VERBOSE, True)
@@ -1291,7 +1314,12 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
                 raise err
                     
             elif str(e.args[1]) == '' and self.http_code != 0: # fake it until you make it
-                msg = 'HTTP Error %s : %s ' % (self.http_code, self.url)
+                if self.scheme in ['http', 'https']:
+                    msg = 'HTTP Error %s : %s ' % (self.http_code, self.url)
+                elif self.scheme in ['ftp']:
+                    msg = 'FTP Error %s : %s ' % (self.http_code, self.url)
+                else:
+                    msg = "Unknown Error: URL=%s , scheme=%s" % (self.url, self.scheme)
             else:
                 msg = 'PYCURL ERROR %s - "%s"' % (errcode, str(e.args[1]))
                 code = errcode
@@ -1299,6 +1327,12 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
             err.code = code
             err.exception = e
             raise err
+        else:
+            if self._error[1]:
+                msg = self._error[1]
+                err = URLGRabError(14, msg)
+                err.url = self.url
+                raise err
 
     def _do_open(self):
         self.curl_obj = _curl_cache
@@ -1532,11 +1566,14 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
     def _over_max_size(self, cur, max_size=None):
 
         if not max_size:
-            max_size = self.size
-        if self.opts.size: # if we set an opts size use that, no matter what
-            max_size = self.opts.size
+            if not self.opts.size:
+                max_size = self.size
+            else:
+                max_size = self.opts.size
+
         if not max_size: return False # if we have None for all of the Max then this is dumb
-        if cur > max_size + max_size*.10:
+
+        if cur > int(float(max_size) * 1.10):
 
             msg = _("Downloaded more than max size for %s: %s > %s") \
                         % (self.url, cur, max_size)
@@ -1582,7 +1619,11 @@ class PyCurlFileObject():
             self.opts.progress_obj.end(self._amount_read)
         self.fo.close()
         
-
+    def geturl(self):
+        """ Provide the geturl() method, used to be got from
+            urllib.addinfourl, via. urllib.URLopener.* """
+        return self.url
+        
 _curl_cache = pycurl.Curl() # make one and reuse it over and over and over
 
 
diff --git a/urlgrabber/progress.py b/urlgrabber/progress.py
index dd07c6a..45eb248 100644
--- a/urlgrabber/progress.py
+++ b/urlgrabber/progress.py
@@ -658,6 +658,8 @@ def format_time(seconds, use_hours=0):
     if seconds is None or seconds < 0:
         if use_hours: return '--:--:--'
         else:         return '--:--'
+    elif seconds == float('inf'):
+        return 'Infinite'
     else:
         seconds = int(seconds)
         minutes = seconds / 60