FTP uploads with curl - monitoring progress - any ideas?

[Ken Ray]

Thanks, Phil! Josh sent me his code as well so having both will let me get
this done!

Thanks again...

Ken

On 3/4/10 2:16 PM, "Phil Davis" <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Hi Ken,
> 
> If you open curl as a process, you can then read the status info one
> line at a time. Would that work?
> 
> Here's one way (courtesy of Josh Mellicker, with some mods):
> 
> -- a button script --
> 
> local vCurlProcess
> 
> 
> on mouseUp
>     put empty into fld "output"
>     put formattedForCurl(fld "filename") into tFiles
> 
>     put ("curl -T" && tFiles && fld "server" && "-C -") into vCurlProcess
>     open process vCurlProcess for read
>     get the result
>     if it = empty
>     then send "getCurlReport" to me in 12 ticks
>     else answer it
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> on getCurlReport
>     read from process vCurlProcess for 1 line
>     put it after fld "output"
>     if it = empty
>     then closeCurl
>     else send "getCurlReport" to me in 12 ticks
> end getCurlReport
> 
> 
> on closeCurl
>     close process vCurlProcess
>     answer "Done."
> end closeCurl
> 
> 
> function formattedForCurl pFileList
>     -- handle single file selection
>     if the number of lines in pFileList = 1 then return quote &
> pFileList & quote
> 
>     -- handle multi file selections
>     replace CR with "," in pFileList
>     put quote & "{" & pFileList & "}" & quote into tList
>     return tList
> end formattedForCurl
> 
> 
> There you have it!
> Phil
> 
> 
> 
> On 3/4/10 10:28 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
>> 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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Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/