Re: Package Proposal: HTTP_Download

On Mon May 05, 2003 at 03:2951PM +0200, Stefan Walk wrote: > 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). -1 on a independent package. Please contact the maintainer of HTTP_Request and see if there is a way to integrate your stuff there. -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/