Re: Reading remote files
| From: | Ashley Sheridan | Date: | Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:36:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Reading remote files | ||
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On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 10:34 -0700, Grace Shibley wrote:
> Is there a way to read large (possibly 500 MB) remote files without loading
> the whole file into memory?
> We are trying to write a function that will return chunks of binary data
> from a file on our server given a file location, specified offset and data
> size.
>
> But, we have not been able to get around loading the whole file into memory
> first. Is there a way to do this??
What sort of remote file is it, i.e. how are you remotely connecting to
it? FTP, HTTP, SSH?
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk