Hi Bob Sneidar, Scott Rossi, Mike Bonner, and Jim Lambert,
Thanks for your suggestions. I going to experiment with all of them and share
my results with the list.
Regards,
Gregory
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That should be:
on getNextFile
if lListOfFilePaths = empty then exit getNextFile
put line 1 of lListOfFilePaths into remoteFilePath
delete line 1 of lListOfFilePaths
—SET THE LOCAL FILE’S NAME HOWEVER YOU NORMALLY WOULD
put whatever into l
Gregory,
Try this (untested):
local lListOfFilePaths
on downloadAll
put theListofFiles into lListOfFilePaths
getnextFile
end repeat
on getNextFile
if lListOfFilePaths = empty then exit getNextFile
put line 1 of lListOfFilePaths into remoteFilePath
The problem doesn't seem to be a local network issue. When I try to grab
files from the sec site, too many connections too fast make it choke.
(There end, not mine, most likely anti-bot code)
As scott rossi said, using a delay should help. I've noticed, the magic
number seems to be 5, so I used
How large are the files you're retrieving? If the script below is your
actual script, you might try allowing some execution time in the loop:
repeat with each line remoteFilePath in listOfFilePaths
-- set new localFileName is set before the download request is made
put url ("ftp://anonymo
FTP has been called the misbehaving child of networking, and I'm being kind.
While other protocols play nicely on a network, not grabbing all the bandwidth
they can and refusing to throttle down when needed, FTP generally does the
opposite. FTP will try to commandeer all the bandwidth your infra
Hello everyone,
I posted about this a while back but am still having trouble.
I need to download thousands of files from the Security and Exchange
Commission's website. Access is through anonymous FTP with "anonymous" as the
username and my email address as the password. I've been using Put in
