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Re: slow urlwrite


From: GAIL
Subject: Re: slow urlwrite
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 20:44:27 +0200
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On 10/11/2007 07:15 PM, John W. Eaton wrote:
On 11-Oct-2007, GAIL wrote:

| urlwrite is more than 10 times slower than, e.g., wget:
| | octave:1> tic ; urlwrite ("ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README";, "README.txt"); t0 = toc ;
| ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README: 100.0 %
| octave:2> tic ; system("wget -q ftp://ftp.octave.org/pub/octave/README";) ; t1 
= toc ;
| octave:3> disp([t0 t1]) ; | 191.1800 1.7532 | | I wonder why. My system is
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| GNU Octave Version 2.9.14
| GNU Octave License: GNU General Public License
| Operating System: Linux 2.4.18-nec3.4p1.045 #1 SMP Mon Apr 9 16:57:17 JST 
2007 ia64
| ----------------------------------------------------------------------
| | and I'm using libcurl.so.4.

Did you actually check to see whether the file is downloaded
correctly?

Yes, it was downloaded.


Did you see the comments in

   http://www.nabble.com/urlread-tf4594365.html#a13124586

about anonymous ftp to ftp.octave.org hanging when using urlwrite?  I
still don't know what is causing the trouble.

I missed that one, sorry. But it's not limited to the octave site and happens 
at other sites as well.

G.




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