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FTP Bandwidth Throttle for Downloads

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Demonstrates the Chilkat FTP2 download bandwidth throttling property : BandwidthThrottleDown.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$ftp = chilkat::CkFtp2->new();

$ftp->put_Hostname("ftp.example.com");
$ftp->put_Username("login");
$ftp->put_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.
$ftp->put_BandwidthThrottleDown(50000);

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

# Connect and login to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# 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.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir("junk");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Download a file.
$localFilename = "hamlet.xml";
$remoteFilename = "hamlet.xml";

$success = $ftp->GetFile($remoteFilename,$localFilename);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $ftp->Disconnect();

print "File Downloaded!" . "\r\n";