FTP uploads with curl - monitoring progress - any ideas?

[Michael Kann]

http://unite.opera.com/

-- just an idea.



--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:

> From: Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com>
> Subject: FTP uploads with curl - monitoring progress - any ideas?
> To: "Use Revolution List" <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:28 PM
> I have some large files (100MB +)
> that I need to FTP to a customer's server.
> I have tried to use libURL to do the uploading, but I get
> odd results/random
> timeouts/errant status messages when the file I'm uploading
> is over 40MB.
> I've tried many different workarounds to this, but none
> have been
> consistent/acceptable so for this project I'm seeing if I
> can use curl.
> 
> The pain is that there doesn't seem to be a way to retrieve
> the progress of
> an FTP upload so I can display a custom upload box. If I
> redirect it to
> dev/null, I get control back after the upload starts, but I
> can't get any
> progress data:
> 
>    curl -T filePath -u user:pass
> serverAdress > /dev/null 2>&1 &
> 
> If I redirect to stdin, it's blocking and I only get
> anything when the
> upload is complete:
> 
>    curl -T filePath -u user:pass
> serverAdress > stdin
> 
> I've also tried:
> 
>    curl -T filePath -u user:pass
> serverAdress > stdin &
>    curl -T filePath -u user:pass
> serverAdress > stdin 2>&1 &
> 
> Is there any way to make a non-blocking call to curl, but
> then to get back
> the progress text that would normally be displayed in the
> Terminal?
> 
> Any help would be appreciated...
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> 
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