Visual FoxPro

FTP Bandwidth Throttle for Downloads

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Demonstrates the Chilkat FTP2 download bandwidth throttling property : BandwidthThrottleDown. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loFtp
LOCAL lcLocalFilename
LOCAL lcRemoteFilename

lnSuccess = 0

* This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
* See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

loFtp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Ftp2')

loFtp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
loFtp.Username = "login"
loFtp.Password = "password"

* To use FTP bandwidth throttling, set the BandwidthThrottleDown
* property to a maximum desired bytes/second:
* This example limits the download to 50K per second.
loFtp.BandwidthThrottleDown = 50000

* The default data transfer mode is "Active" as opposed to "Passive".

* Connect and login to the FTP server.
lnSuccess = loFtp.Connect()
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Change to the remote directory where the file is located.
* This step is only necessary if the file is not in the root directory
* for the FTP account.
lnSuccess = loFtp.ChangeRemoteDir("junk")
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Download a file.
lcLocalFilename = "hamlet.xml"
lcRemoteFilename = "hamlet.xml"

lnSuccess = loFtp.GetFile(lcRemoteFilename,lcLocalFilename)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFtp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

lnSuccess = loFtp.Disconnect()

? "File Downloaded!"

RELEASE loFtp