Internet file transfer

Richard Miller wow at together.net
Sun Jun 26 19:40:49 EDT 2005


This is the kind of feedback I'm really looking for. Very useful. 
Thanks.
Richard

On Jun 26, 2005, at 7:08 PM, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

>> Our software needs to transfer 1-2 MB files to and from a dedicated 
>> server on a regular basis (generally 5-10 times per hour for any 
>> given user). The connection is always via DSL or cable modem, but 
>> reliability is still critical. If a file transfer should be 
>> interrupted for any reason and not complete, we need to know this and 
>> restart it repeatedly until it's successful.
>
> I use libURLftpUploadFile with a callback message for when the upload 
> is finished and a repeated handler to check the URLstatus.
>
> When finished, I get the FTP directory listing and compare the size of 
> the uploaded file to the size locally and if they are not the same, or 
> if the URLstatus ever contained the word "error", then I know 
> something has gone wrong and I need to try again.
>
> HTH,
> Sarah
>
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