Thanks Charles. I probably won't get all the way back into this until
Monday, just FYI.
Also, HostM support has just given me an HTTPS tsnetGetFile download
example stack. I tried it and my initial test worked! I still have some
experimenting to do with it to find out which tsnetGetFile() settings
are required for my case and which ones aren't, but the initial outcome
is a great encouragement. (I'll be asking them if I can upload a mod of
it to the livecodeshare site.)
Although I've been developing software since the 70s (and maybe because
I have been), I still don't know my HTTP headers well at all. That
spills over into not knowing exactly what tsnet settings to use in
certain cases. I'm pretty sure that has been a large factor in my
current challenge.
I'm using LC 9.6.0 on macOS 10.13.6 (my main dev machine) and up
(Mojave, Catalina).
Thanks again -
Phil
On 7/18/20 5:10 AM, Charles Warwick via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Phil,
You can use the same command with HTTP, just make sure you set any HTTP headers
accordingly (similar to tsNetGet).
As for the issues with FTP, which version of LC are you using?
Regards,
Charles
On 18 Jul 2020, at 6:48 pm, Phil Davis via use-livecode
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Charles,
Thanks for the response. Yes, my app is doing what is shown in the lesson
(using FTP) and it's generally successful as long as the files aren't too
large. Are you saying I can probably just change the protocol to HTTP and it
will likely work? I'll try it when I'm not so bleary-eyed (it's almost 2 AM
here in the US Pacific Northwest).
Phil
On 7/18/20 12:54 AM, Charles Warwick via use-livecode wrote:
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
<[email protected]> 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.
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