Re: [MACTCL] http::get -channel broken in tcl 8.5.16 on MacOS 10.9

[Russell O. <ro...@uw...>]

On 10/9/14 2:49 PM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
> Russell,
>
> On 10/9/14, 3:49 PM, Russell Owen wrote:
>> package require http
>>
>> set outname "saturn.jpg"
>> set url
>> "http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1409/saturnequinox_cassini_7227.jpg"
>> set out [open "temp" w]
>> set token [::http::geturl $url -channel $out]
>> close $out
>
> I see the bug, but have no idea what the problem is--I don't maintain
> the http package and so wouldn't know where to begin debugging it.
>
> Any reason  you are using a Tcl call instead of something from Python,
> cf. urllib?

It is a Tkinter application (naturally) and I want to display the 
progress of the download. Is it possible to safely do this with a Python 
http library? If so, that does sound like the best solution.

For the record: the Tcl community jumped on this bug and fixed it for 
8.5 and 8.6. I was very impressed!

-- Russell