Progress info from wget or curl?

[Mark Wieder]

Richard-

Sunday, November 2, 2014, 11:52:12 AM, you wrote:

> I must be slow this morning, because I can still only get shell to
> return with the final output from the command, the 
> successfully-downloaded file, and my best effort at experimenting with
> wget's options still never yields anything from LiveCode's shell 
> function except at the very end after wget completes.

No, it's me being caffeine-deprived and jet-lagged from the time
change. I missed that you want progress reports on the fly. Try
opening the process for neither, as non-intuitive as that sounds.

> But I've been so impressed with the performance of wget and curl that
> I'm considering replacing some libURL stuff in GUI apps with them, 
> provided I can find a way to provide download feedback for the user.

wget has the disadvantage of only supporting GETs and POSTs. Curl will
do better, but has some annoying cross-platform differences. Httpie
does a better job and has a more intuitive syntax than curl, but it
doesn't yet support client certificates in a stable release.

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-Mark Wieder
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