URL Access latency
URL Access latency
- Subject: URL Access latency
- From: "Roger Howard" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:21:27 -0700
URL Access is a great feature for most purposes but I am currently having a problem with the inherent latency in calling URL Access Scripting to download a file and return. This maybe be partly because URL Access is implemented as a scriptable application so there is some obvious overhead in interapp communications.
The problem is that if I keep my applet in the foreground I get max performance within the applet for various routines and communications with other apps, but then I need to switch to URL Access Scripting (either with activate, or automatically everytime I use it to download something). If instead I keep URL Access in the foreground then my applet suffers and the overall effect is a slowdown in the entire process.
I need something more immediately available, something like the old TCP/IP Scripting Addition. I own a license to it but it seems to be out of development these days and no indication it'll make any sort of comeback. I would love to be able to build basic TCP/IP apps from the ground up in AppleScript so I could implement my own lightweight http client for my current needs as well as other protocols as needed... anyone have any recommendations? I love URL Access but it isn't cutting it right now and neither are the third-party scriptable network clients (Interarchy, MSIE, Netscape Communicator, etc.)
Thanks for any ideas,
Roger Howard
Digital Media Specialist
Museum Information Systems
The J. Paul Getty Trust
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310.440.6908