Uploading a stack

[andu]

--On Friday, August 02, 2002 14:03:41 -0400 Richard MacLemale 
<rmaclema at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> I know that if there were a quota for questions, I would have exceeded it
> days ago... You can tell I'm coming close to finishing this program, huh?
>
> OK.  I haven't used libUrl in a long time, and I really like the new
> version.  Very cool!  The help is great.
>
> And so my question - what is currently the best way to upload a 2 MB stack
> via ftp?  If you use libUrl's put command, that means the whole stack
> would have to be read into a variable before being sent, right?  That's
> probably not the end of the world, but if there's a better way built in
> I'd be interested in hearing it.
>
> A couple of years ago I wrote a routine that would open a socket
> connection, and then read 5K of a file, send it, read the next 5K, send
> it, etc, until the whole file was sent.  In this manner, the whole file
> did not have to be loaded into RAM because it was being read and sent 5K
> at a time.  It worked, but it was a major pain in the butt to write,
> modify, and debug.  I'd just as soon avoid that.  I'm assuming that
> libUrl does not have that
> functionality?
>
> Like I said, I can live with loading 2 MB into RAM, but it seems like
> there ought to be a better way and if there is I'd like to know it...
>
> Sorry to be a pain.  :)

Compress the file.

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> Richard MacLemale
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> J. W. Mitchell High School
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Regards, Andu Novac