(Lianja) FTP Bandwidth Throttle for Downloads

Demonstrates the Chilkat FTP2 download bandwidth throttling property : BandwidthThrottleDown.

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

loFtp = createobject("CkFtp2")

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.
llSuccess = loFtp.Connect()
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    release loFtp
    return
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.
llSuccess = loFtp.ChangeRemoteDir("junk")
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    release loFtp
    return
endif

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

llSuccess = loFtp.GetFile(lcRemoteFilename,lcLocalFilename)
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
    ? loFtp.LastErrorText
    release loFtp
    return
endif

llSuccess = loFtp.Disconnect()

? "File Downloaded!"


release loFtp