Hi Chris, First of all, thanks for your explanation, but maybe i don't explain very well what is my problem. Yes i know that this is the way to obtain this information, but how you can did the algorithm that you describe if the code line (see below the number 1) don't return until it finish the download process completely. do you understand now my doubt?. Maybe using multithreading i can resolve this problem, but can i only resolve it using multithreading only?
thanks in advance, Gaspar Here is the code, see the line 1), is what i use to download the file. ... HttpMethod method = new GetMethod(getURL().toString()); ... // start the download process line 1) statusCode = client.executeMethod(method); ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 1:00 AM Subject: RE: How i can get information about the downloading process? > Hi Gaspar, > > If you use some of the approaches that let HTTPClient do all the hard work > for you, you'll not have this feedback as far as I'm aware. > > But it's quite simple to get this information yourself. If you open the > connection and read data as a stream, you need to remember : > > * the time (e.g. System.currentTimeMillis()) you started as a "long" > variable > > * the total number of bytes so far read as a "long" variable, updated each > time you read some bytes from the stream > > * you can determine the average speed so far by dividing the number of bytes > downloaded by the time taken so far (see both points above); that's not > necessarily your current speed > > * for the percentage remaining, you'll need to know in advance the size of > what you're going to download (the HTTP response header "Content-Length" > should help here, but you're not always going to get this information, and > it's not always provided correctly by the server). > > You'll want multithreading no doubt, so make your "download" object expose > this information through "getter" methods. You can then display this on the > command line, in a progress bar, or whatever. > > - Chris > > > >From: "Gaspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-To: "HttpClient Project" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: How i can get information about the downloading process? > >Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2004 16:08:35 -0800 > > > >Hi, > > > >My question is about how i can do with HttpClient, something that i see on > >many download manager software. > > > >About the file that i'm downloading using HttpClient i want to get this > >information: > > > >- % of the file that is downloaded already. > >- the size of what is downloaded already. > >- the speed rate(b/s) of what is downloading. > >- the time left to finish the download process. > > > >the downlaod manager that i use is ReGet Deluxe 3.3 and i want do something > >similar with HttpClient. > > > >Thanks in advance, > >Gaspar > > > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > MSN Actions Solidaires : volontaire � l'�tranger > http://www.msn.fr/actionssolidaires/Default.asp?Ath=f > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
