Re: High Performance solutions are needed to do things like urlretrieve

2010-07-14 Thread MRAB
David wrote: urlretrieve works fine. However, when file size get very large. It goes on forever, and even fails. For instance, one of download .zip file is of 363,096KB. Particularly, when trying to get, with urlretrieve, a zipped folder of a very large size, it could take up to 20 to 30 minu

Re: High Performance solutions are needed to do things like urlretrieve

2010-07-14 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 07/14/2010 07:49 PM, David wrote: > > urlretrieve works fine. However, when file size get very large. It > goes on forever, and even fails. > > For instance, one of download .zip file is of 363,096KB. > > Particularly, when trying to get, with urlretrieve, a zipped folder of > a very large

High Performance solutions are needed to do things like urlretrieve

2010-07-14 Thread David
urlretrieve works fine. However, when file size get very large. It goes on forever, and even fails. For instance, one of download .zip file is of 363,096KB. Particularly, when trying to get, with urlretrieve, a zipped folder of a very large size, it could take up to 20 to 30 minutes. Often it