Hi Phil, Does this lesson help you?
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/853715-how-to-asynchronously-download-via-sftp-directly-to-a-file It uses SFTP with tsNetGetFile, so while the protocol used is different, the concept is the same. Regards, Charles > On 18 Jul 2020, at 5:17 pm, Phil Davis via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Does anyone have an working example stack you're willing to share where > 'tsnetGetFile' or 'tsnetGetFileSync' is using HTTP (or HTTPS) to download a > file? I have had limited success using FTP but it consistently fails (in my > situation at least) when files are bigger than 200-300 MB (depending I guess > on network traffic at that moment, or ???). > > Today I started with the example described in the lesson: > http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/945907-how-to-download-multiple-files-in-the-background-with-tsnet > > The example uses HTTP via 'tsnetGet' to download the text of web pages into a > variable, and then uses "put tData into url ("file:" <path>)" to make the > files. In my real-world situation I can't do that. My actual downloads are > binary files that can be over 1 GB. I need to download them as files to the > local disk, so for me 'tsnetGet' is out. > > There are no tsnet examples on http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/ so I'm > turning to you (which I should have done earlier). > > (Is there anywhere else I should look for examples? I did look on > stackexchange and stackoverflow but no joy.) > > Thanks for any and all responses. > > -- > Phil Davis > 503-307-4363 > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode