RE: [PEAR-DEV] Package Proposal: HTTP_Download
| From: | LIMBOURG Arnaud | Date: | Mon, 05 May 2003 13:45:16 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR-DEV] Package Proposal: HTTP_Download | ||
| Groups: | php.pear.dev | ||
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+1.
> Hi!
>
> I'd like to propose a new Package for the HTTP Category,
> HTTP_Download.
>
> It allows you to download files over HTTP, reading their size prior to
> downloading them (The URL fopen wrappers don't do that), and reading
> them part-by-part, so you can watch the progress (The existing package
> HTTP_Request stores the complete response in an Response object right
> when sending the request). It's currently pretty coarse, I will add
> error handling (4xx,5xx) and better support for redirections (atm, it
> only supports redirections that conform to the HTTP/1.1 RFC,
> yet it does
> happen that servers only send relative paths instead of
> absolute URIs).
>
> You can view the source at
> http://prp0.prp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/~swalk/HTTP_Download/Do
> wnload.html
>
> DocBook documentation will follow when i'm familiar with the format.