Try using CURL - with that you can download many links simultaneously!
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:48 AM, Brian Dunning wrote:
> This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
>
> I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
> 24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few h
Brian Dunning wrote on 2009-12-01 23:48:
This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB.
Their security process requires the files to be downloaded via
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 4:56 PM, LinuxManMikeC wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Brian Dunning
> wrote:
> >
> > This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
> >
> > I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF
> docs 24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundre
Can someone explain how this would work? It's a Windows web server running IIS
and the files are saved to a drive that is outside the web root. PHP is
grabbing each filename from a MySQL database, along with the URL and
credentials for it, and ends up with a url something like this:
https://serv
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Brian Dunning wrote:
>
> This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
>
> I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
> 24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB.
> Their security process requires the files
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 3:21 PM, James McLean wrote:
> The suggestion from other users of off-loading the PDF downloading to
> Apache (or another webserver) is a good idea also.
^
I never allow PHP to be [ab]used and kept open to spoonfeed clients
with fopen/readfile/etc.
in nginx:
header("X-A
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 9:18 AM, Brian Dunning wrote:
> This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
Aren't they all! :)
> It's WAY TOO SLOW. I can paste the URL into a browser and download even the
> largest files quite quickly, but the PHP method bottlenecks and cannot keep
> up.
Are you certain you
On Dec 1, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Brian Dunning wrote:
> This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
[snip]
> Is there a SUBSTANTIALLY faster way to download and save these files? Keep in
> mind the client's requirements cannot be changed. Thanks for any suggestions.
Could you just put the URLs of the files
On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 14:51 -0800, Brian Dunning wrote:
> Oops, it's several hundred per hour, several thousand per day. Sorry for the
> accidental superlative.
>
> > I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
> > 24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a f
Oops, it's several hundred per hour, several thousand per day. Sorry for the
accidental superlative.
> I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
> 24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB.
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This is a holiday-crunch emergency.
I'm dealing with a client from whom we need to download many large PDF docs
24x7, several thousand per hour, all between a few hundred K and about 50 MB.
Their security process requires the files to be downloaded via https using a
big long URL with lots of cr
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