file-transfer

Is there a way to get the progress of a file transfer using move function in a Perl script?

I am an ETL developer and I deal with a lot of data that needs to be processed from one form to the other before it can be loaded into tables. Therefore, most of the scripts that I work with, at some point, have to move a file from one place to the other. We are a windows shop. I was wondering if there was a way to see how much time a mo...

The fastest way to implement mktree in FTP

What is generally the fastest algorithm to recursively make a directory (similar to UNIX mkdir -p) using the FTP protocol? I have considered one approach: MKDIR node if error and nodes left go to 1 with next node end But this might have bad performance if part of the directory most likely exists. For example, with some amortization...

What is going to overtake FTP and why aren't we using it yet?

Is it just me, or does FTP seem a little archaic? It seems slow and inefficient, and its over 30 years old, not that all old things are bad :) What protocols exist out there that might become successors to FTP? I've used webdav a little, but don't know much about it. Is it faster? More reliable? More secure? Why isn't there widesp...

Realtime data transfer between two or more Oracle databases.

Hi, I'm not a techie as such but have a question which I would like some views on. Currently we have 4 applications runnings on either Oracle 10g or 9i and use OAQ for data transfer but Oracle Streams for within day data transfer. Streams is currently viewed as bringing tight coupling between the applications and such will not be our ...

Managed File Transfer - any viable open source options out there?

Hi, I'm currently looking at options with the aim of replacing our current bespoked and unsupported MFT soultion. As well as the usual Ipswitch, Axway and Sterling type solutions I was wondering whether anyone knew of any serious open source offerings currently available? ...

How can a C# app easily communicate and transfer files on a network?

How can a C# app easily communicate with an instance of itself present on another computer, which is on the same network, and transfer files and data? Assuming the computers on the network have fixed local IP addresses, and they each know each others IPs. Would there also be a way to communicate if the IPs are unknown? based on some dis...

Which Protocol is best for File Transfer.

What is the best protocol I can use to transfer a Big file, Which should be fast and reliable. it might have low bandwidth systems i need a file transmition across the india.the file size may be 100 to 500MB ...

Transferring Files Over a Network

Among FTP, HTTP, SSH, etc. and given a consistent, broadband internet connection what is the fastest way to transfer files over a network? ...

Simple file transfer over wifi between computer and mobile phone using python

I'd like to be able to transfer files between my mobile phone and computer. The phone is a smartphone that can run python 2.5.4 and the computer is running windows xp (with python 2.5.4 and 3.1.1). I'd like to have a simple python program on the phone that can send files to the computer and get files from the computer. The phone end...

PHP - determine how many bytes sent over http

Is it possible in PHP to get a count of the number of bytes transmitted to the client? For example, if I'm outputting a 10 MB file, is there a way to find out if all 10 MB were sent to the client, or to see if the client interrupted the transfer partway? I know Apache will log this afterwards, but I'd like to access the data in PHP. ...

Obtaining Files From A Local Web Server or Network Share - Which Is Better

Here's the scenerio. I have to access a web service on the local LAN to obtain a list of files which I then must retrieve from the machine running the web service. The question has arisen whether to use a mapped drive or just retrieve the files via HTTP from the web service (or web server if the service is self-hosting). All machines ...

Efficient file transfer from Java server to multiple C++ clients?

I need to transfer files fast over the Internet from a Java server to C++ clients, where often many clients would need the same files. I was looking at say transferTo() in Java which sounds like it would be a decently optimized function to send files. However, I'm not sure when I use transferTo() how to best receive that in C++ (i.e. i...

file transfer in ap.net web site

Hi guys, i want to transfer files between any 2 active users on my website and have no idea how to go about it....can it be done through sockets???? i know this would be very hard to do since there has to be a connection between the reciever and the sender for data to be sent...and browsers do have privileges that windows applications h...

Tips / Examples on sending an Image file (jpeg, png) over socket programming?

I've heard that we can somehow send an image file with binary over a socket... But I have no idea on how to convert an image file into binary or how to even think of sending it over a socket... Was hoping if someone could post a simple example? or point me in the right direction :) I am also using QT for just my gui, but not using QT so...

Java: BufferedReader reads more than a line?

Hi, I'm making a program in Java with Sockets. I can send commands to the client and from the client to the server. To read the commands I use a BufferedReader. To write them, a PrintWriter But now I want to transfer a file through that socket (Not simply create a second connection).First I write to the outputstream how many bytes the ...

Asp.net fileupload transfer rate

Is there any way to easly know Transferrate between server/client during un filupload upload? Because uploading a file of 4,13Mb take about 5 or 6 minutes.... Is there anyway we can track it, by writing it in flatfile, email, response.write anything!! We're stuck. Thanks to help us :(! ...

Java File Transfer getting stuck halfway

I am trying to send a file (an image sent as a byte array) with the client and then the server should receive said byte array to make further use of it. However when I click on the "send" to send the image the file transfer starts (as I get a sentImage.jpg in my Desktop) but it gets stuck for some reason I can't figure out and the image ...

Download files in iPhone application?

1) How to initialize a download of contents, say a document or XML, to iPhone? 2) Where will the downloaded files be stored? 3) Any restrictions on file download? Any forbidden files? ...

Calculating Throughput for a Webservice download

I have a client server application which exchanges XML documents for data requested by the client. Essentially the user enters some search constraints (attributes to match) and the client communicates with two systems to get data back (some data from a database and some data from file servers). The data returned from the file servers (...

Transfer file over socket.

I found this code witch I tried and it works great but(!). I want to store the file in a folder that I will choose and also get it from a folder that I again will chose. Since the Sender get an argument then I suppose that if I give an argument like /home/user/test.txt then that's ok and it'll work out fine but I don't get how to store t...