On 09/11/2006 05:58 PM, Robin Sheat wrote:
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 10:27, Rob Dixon wrote:
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What may help is that LWP allows for a callback to be specified in the
get() call, so that the downloaded data can be passed in chunks to a
user-written subroutine as it arrives. Use
Hi, I'd like to download a file using HTTP, however instead of getting the
result as an in-memory string, or saved to a file, I'd like to be able to
access the content like it was a file (this is because the content downloaded
is being written directly to another program as it is downloaded). I
Robin Sheat wrote:
Hi, I'd like to download a file using HTTP, however instead of getting the
result as an in-memory string, or saved to a file, I'd like to be able to
access the content like it was a file (this is because the content downloaded
is being written directly to another program
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:17, Rob Dixon wrote:
One you have downloaded the remote file to memory or to local file storage
you can then open either of them and access them through a filehandle. Will
that do?
Tell us a little more and we may be able to help better.
Imagine I'm downloading
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 05:48, Tom Phoenix wrote:
If it's a large amount of data and you want to process it a line at a
time, say, it should be easy to write your own buffer-handling code.
Is that what you want to do?
Yes, however I'm accessing the data via HTTP, and so I'd really like to
Robin Sheat wrote:
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 08:17, Rob Dixon wrote:
One you have downloaded the remote file to memory or to local file storage
you can then open either of them and access them through a filehandle. Will
that do?
Tell us a little more and we may be able to help better.
On Tuesday 12 September 2006 10:27, Rob Dixon wrote:
I think so Robin, thanks. But I'm still not clear whether you really need
to retrieve the data through a filehandle; surely any suitable means of IPC
will do?
Well yes, any IPC thing would do. However, I figured that handles represent
On 9/11/06, Robin Sheat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to download a file using HTTP, however instead of getting the
result as an in-memory string, or saved to a file, I'd like to be able to
access the content like it was a file (this is because the content downloaded
is being written
