libURLDownloadToFile stops downloading on status = requested

[Sarah Reichelt]

On 10/27/07, viktoras didziulis <viktoras at ekoinf.net> wrote:
> Created an updater for my application and now stuck with a problem -
> libURLDownloadToFile freezes while attempting to download 4 Mb size
> Revolution stack from my own website. libURLSetStatusCallback returns
> "requested" and here it stops for eternity. Server log contains no
> errors but file is not being downloaded. What could be a possible reason
> for this? I would expect Revolution's internet library to return at
> least "error", "timeout" or empty on failure, but it simply stops at
> "requested" point. Does not hang, crash, whatsoever - just stops
> downloading the file...
>
> Besides, it works with html or any other smaller text files and it
> worked a few days ago with that stack before it reached 4 Mb size ..-_
>
> Scripts are as simple (paths changed) as:
> on mouseUp
>   libURLDownloadToFile
> "http://www.myserver.net/hm/update.bin","update.tmp","downloadComplete"
>   libURLSetStatusCallback "showStatus", the long ID of me
> end mouseUp
>
> on showStatus theURL,theStatus
>   put theURL && theStatus into fld "fStatus" of stack "Updater"
> end showStatus
>
> Would I deliberately change url to any nonexisting filename on server,
> it returns "error" as expected.
>
> any good ideas or suggestions are very welcome :-)
> Viktoras

Make a new field and use the libURLSetLogField command to set it as
the logging field. Then you will be able to see the FTP commands and
responses and try to work out what the problem is.

There is a socketTimeout mesage you can monitor, but I'm not sure that
the FTP commands will trigger it.

HTH,
Sarah