quick question

say i wanted to download a file of considerable size 10gb say

and i sent the GET request to a web server to download that file

question is, if the client stopped reading the TCP connection, would the entire file still be downloaded, or does it depend on the client sending back an ack or something to the circuit asking for the next packet

hope that makes sense

This question was originally asked involving the Tor network, but i just want to know how a standard internet connection would handle this

Thanks