tsnetGetFile() example using HTTP?

[Phil Davis]

Thanks Charles. I probably won't get all the way back into this until 
Monday, just FYI.

Also, HostM support has just given me an HTTPS tsnetGetFile download 
example stack. I tried it and my initial test worked! I still have some 
experimenting to do with it to find out which tsnetGetFile() settings 
are required for my case and which ones aren't, but the initial outcome 
is a great encouragement. (I'll be asking them if I can upload a mod of 
it to the livecodeshare site.)

Although I've been developing software since the 70s (and maybe because 
I have been), I still don't know my HTTP headers well at all. That 
spills over into not knowing exactly what tsnet settings to use in 
certain cases. I'm pretty sure that has been a large factor in my 
current challenge.

I'm using LC 9.6.0 on macOS 10.13.6 (my main dev machine) and up 
(Mojave, Catalina).

Thanks again -
Phil


On 7/18/20 5:10 AM, Charles Warwick via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Phil,
>
> You can use the same command with HTTP, just make sure you set any HTTP headers accordingly (similar to tsNetGet).
>
> As for the issues with FTP, which version of LC are you using?
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles
>
>> On 18 Jul 2020, at 6:48 pm, Phil Davis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Phil Davis
>>>> 503-307-4363
>>>>
>>>>
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