Re: [OpenSTA-users] Can a script wait until the end of a HTTPBinary file download completes before continuing?

[Dan D. <ddo...@me...>]

Bernie Velivis wrote:
=========
>The essense of what Dan said is correct however the proper syntax of the 
>command is 'SYNCHRONIZE REQUESTS'. You don't need to use ''Load 
>response_info' to get  OpenSTA to wait until the binary file is downloaded 
>before proceeding with script execution. The only reason you would load 
>response_info body or header is if you wanted to examine the response  and 
>keep in mind that with the version of OpenSTA you have, you are limited to 
>looking at the first 64K bytes of the response. The synch command will
cause 
>script execution to pause until the entire file is downloaded (not just the

>first 64K bytes)
>
>The following code fragment will do what you want and time the event as 
>well;
>
 > Start Timer BINARYDOWNLOAD
>
 > GET URI "http://www.iperformax.com/BernieVelivisResume.pdf HTTP/1.1" ON 1

>&
 >  HEADER DEFAULT_HEADERS  &
  > ,WITH {"Accept: */*", &
   > "Referer: http://www.iperformax.com/about.html", &
  >  "Accept-Language: en-us", &
   > "Connection: Keep-Alive"}
>
> SYNCHRONIZE REQUESTS
>
>
 > End Timer BINARYDOWNLOAD

Bernie, thanks for the catch on the syntax!  Think I momentarily confused
it with DISCONNECT ALL :)

...Dan
Dan Downing
www.mentora.com