tsnetGetFile() example using HTTP?

[Phil Davis]

Hi Charles,

Thanks for the response. Yes, my app is doing what is shown in the 
lesson (using FTP) and it's generally successful as long as the files 
aren't too large. Are you saying I can probably just change the protocol 
to HTTP and it will likely work? I'll try it when I'm not so bleary-eyed 
(it's almost 2 AM here in the US Pacific Northwest).

Phil


On 7/18/20 12:54 AM, Charles Warwick via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> Does this lesson help you?
>
> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/853715-how-to-asynchronously-download-via-sftp-directly-to-a-file
>
> It uses SFTP with tsNetGetFile, so while the protocol used is different, the concept is the same.
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles
>
>> On 18 Jul 2020, at 5:17 pm, Phil Davis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have an working example stack you're willing to share where 'tsnetGetFile' or 'tsnetGetFileSync' is using HTTP (or HTTPS) to download a file? I have had limited success using FTP but it consistently fails (in my situation at least) when files are bigger than 200-300 MB (depending I guess on network traffic at that moment, or ???).
>>
>> Today I started with the example described in the lesson:
>> http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/945907-how-to-download-multiple-files-in-the-background-with-tsnet
>>
>> The example uses HTTP via 'tsnetGet' to download the text of web pages into a variable, and then uses "put tData into url ("file:" <path>)" to make the files. In my real-world situation I can't do that. My actual downloads are binary files that can be over 1 GB. I need to download them as files to the local disk, so for me 'tsnetGet' is out.
>>
>> There are no tsnet examples on http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/ so I'm turning to you (which I should have done earlier).
>>
>> (Is there anywhere else I should look for examples? I did look on stackexchange and stackoverflow but no joy.)
>>
>> Thanks for any and all responses.
>>
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>> Phil Davis
>> 503-307-4363
>>
>>
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