Re: URL Access Scripting file size limitations? (Leopard)
Re: URL Access Scripting file size limitations? (Leopard)
- Subject: Re: URL Access Scripting file size limitations? (Leopard)
- From: James Gretton <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:04:09 +0000
Update: just tried out cURL and it worked first time (about 30 seconds implementation) so... I thought I'd really give it a test - I set it downloading a 50 meg file, turned airport off half way through, waited a few seconds, turned airport back on and to my amazement, 1 min later the download completed successfully!
Absolutely great- thanks for the advice everyone.
James
On 29 January 2010 11:46, James Gretton
<email@hidden> wrote:
Hello everyone, sorry for the slow reply.
I have indeed run into lots of URLAS errors, often it freezes up completely. You may not be surprised that the first line of my script is:
try
do shell script "killall \"URL Access Scripting\""
end try
Which lets face it, is a pretty bad sign...
Curl sounds like a great alternative. I've previously used it with PHP but hadn't considered that it's installed on my Mac too. Will give it a go over the next couple of days and report back. Luckily I made a function to handle the downloading of files so it should just be one change (which makes a change from my usual slap dash applescript!)
Thanks a lot,
James
On 28 January 2010 18:54, Alex Zavatone
<email@hidden> wrote:
I've used Curl before on 10.5.x and on the Mac, it appeared to work fine being able to upload and download movie files to an HTTP server running MAMP.
But, on XP, uploading the same files to the MAMP server with Curl, the transfer speed was limited to 200KBps for some reason that we could not determine.
All machines were on the same network. Expect strange errors where you least suspect them.
Cheers,
- Zav
On Jan 28, 2010, at 12:40 PM, Emmanuel LEVY wrote:
> I second the advice to switch to curl. Intensive testing has proved to us that URLAS, our friend on OS9, is not reliable. Against a big file, or against a zillion small files, it will eventually error. curl won't.
>
> Emmanuel
> Satimage-software and Quomodo
>
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