Dear Daniel,

do you have any tips for me how to get started scripting that with winnt?

Are there any specific return codes which i should check for? How do i
know if a download was successfull/failed or the network is down?

hasn't this been done before? i was searching the web but didn't find
anything related to curl.

how may such a script look like?

Thanks a lot for your help

Steven

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Daniel Stenberg wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Steven Enderle wrote:
> 
> 
>>we currently try to set up a weekly repeating data transfer with a customer
>>via https.
>>
>>Now while using curl to download the files, the connection is somehow
>>reset. This seems to happend a lot, but i guess i cannot to anything about
>>it, maybe its because of some bad line quality, whatever.
>>
>>I was wondering, how to get curl to retry the download? Is this only
>>possible via script?
>>
> 
> The curl command line tool does not do this automaticly, no. I know others
> have requested this feature before, but AFAIK no one has added the necessary
> code snippets to make it happen.
> 
> So yes, until someone brings that funcitonality, you're left to script your
> way out of this problem with the command line tool or with your favorite curl
> binding.
> 
> 
>>wget does this nice but wget doesn't support https-proxys.
>>
> 
> Right.
> 
> 
>>Any suggestions how to do this with WinNT?
>>
> 
> I can come up with these three alternatives:
> 
> A) write C code to make the client retry failed transfers
> 
> B) write a script that re-runs the client when needed
> 
> C) patch wget to use CONNECT
> 
> If you opt for A or B, I'm sure you can get help on the curl mailing lists
> should you get stuck somewhere.
> 
> If you opt for C, well then you're in the wrong neighborhood. ;-)
> 
>