Hello, in the age of advanced Internet browsers, we still can meet with very lame downloaders they provide. They offer no ability to start at the place where download was broken. So I created following 1KB in size small util. As you can see - no GUI. I tried, but I spent most of my time playing with look, so I gave up. It is simple, small, does what it is supposed to do, well, mostly.
Every time I think I finally understand how something works, I stay starving at console, getting unexpected results. So, the script as it is seems to work. Just try to answer my following questions: 1) I tried to use simply "data: copy source" aproach. The strange thing is, that while I use /no-wait, it should perform body block of 'while. But I can see console hanging, and the body block is entered only once - once file is completly downloaded. But - 'copy should not block here, no? 2) With larger file, I obtain network time-out. So I tried to use some kind of "not error? try [data: copy source]", but well, once port is closed by the other side, 'none is generated, but 'none itself doesn't return false(error) state to 'try. So - how to adapt the script, so I could safely go home, and let my script to download-damned-thing-even-in-million-pieces, safely? :-) ... I turned it back to copy/part aproach, but - is open/no-wait on http port broken? Why does 'copy block, or - what happens at all? Any explanation appreciated. PS: used write/binary/append, untill open/skip works as expected .... -pekr- ------------------------------- REBOL [] source-url: http://www.rebol.cz/~cyphre/ source-file: %styles2.jpg target-path: %./ target-file: source-file source-size: size? join source-url source-file either exists? join target-path target-file [ target-size: size? join target-path target-file ][target-size: 0] if target-size == source-size [print "Nothing to download, file already complete ..." halt] if target-size > 0 [print ["Appending at " target-size "bytes"]] start: now/time forever [ while [error? try [source: open/binary/direct/no-wait/skip join source-url source-file target-size]][ print "Can't open source file .... waiting 10 min" wait 00:10 ] while [ wait source data: copy/part source 2048 ][ write/binary/append join target-path target-file data target-size: target-size + length? data print ["Source-size: " source-size tab "Downloaded: " target-size tab "Time: " now/time - start] ] if target-size >= source-size [break] ] close source -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
