curl-users
Re: Using curl to automate timed transmissions
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:58:53 +0200 (CEST)
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, mutumba wycliff wrote:
> Hello all,
Hello. Why are you replying to and fully quouting a totally unrelated mail if
you want to start a new thread? Stop that please. See:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
> The transmission channel shall be HTTPS
> The frequency of files will be say 5 minutes but configurable.
>
> What is the best approach I should take?
You could easily solve this task by doing HTTPS requests in both directions,
running a server in both ends for the receiving and using curl to do the
sending.
> How should I handle the transmission frequency (use some shell scripting to
> handle the scheduling of the transmissions)?
Use whatever scripting/programming language you prefer!
> How should I handle the transmission acknowledgements to and fro?
A checksum and then a POST back to confirm it worked fine?
> is there Curl for windows, how do we build it?
Yes: see docs/INSTALL
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