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

[Tam W. <tam...@te...>]

Hello,

Well in the end I found that everything was working correctly for my
binary file download.  The timer *was* timing the full download and the
script does wait for the full download whether I use "SYNCHRONIZE
REQUESTS" or "LOAD RESPONSE_INFO BODY".  I can see in my proxy log that
the full file is downloaded.  So thank you to those who affirmed how the
script worked.  It made a huge difference in working out what was wrong
(or not wrong in this case).

My main mistake (besides a lack of faith!) was thinking that a 12Mb file
would take a substantial time to download when it only takes a few
seconds across an internal network.

Also, because I was checking using either the Script Modeller or the
Single Step I was seeing it respond when it got the 200 level response
(after a split second) but not noticing the few seconds delay before the
rest of the script finished (when it was downloading the rest of the
file). =20

Kudos to those who tirelessly respond to queries on this list.  It is a
real help. =20

By way of contributing...=20

1. I have a batch file which works around the script caching issue and
occasional instability of the toolset which I can tidy up and share.
Any interest?  I run it on one machine before kicking off a test run.
It uses pskill and psexec from www.sysinternals.com to kill all the
OpenSTA processes on all machines running OpenSTA, empty out the engine
temp directory and then start the processes again.  Nothing too flash
(the only trick is in setting the common directory in the path on each
machine, as mentioned in one of the FAQs). =20

2. Also, I haven't noticed anything on the forums or FAQ about FTP
support (other than a review from a few years back).  It seems that
(with my web proxy at least) I can get FTP to work if I do it via a web
proxy, i.e. OpenSTA records it (with a few errors) and played back.
E.g. something like  (this is from memory not cut and paste),
CONNECT TO 1.2.3.4:8080 ON 1
GET URI "ftp://user1:pas...@te.../file1.txt HTTP/1.1" ON 1
&
HEADER DEFAULT_HEADERS &
,WITH {"Accept: */*", &
"Accept-Language: en-us", &
"Connection: Keep-Alive"}
...

Thanks again for the help,
Tam

Tam Willacy
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