inet.getUrl(url, localname) problem

[jon]

I am having trouble with the getUrl function. This is my code;

var inet = new Inet;
	
if(inet.isInetConnected()){
	trace("we are connected to the net");
	inet.onGetUrl = on_geturl;
	if(inet.getUrl("http://www.cell-media.com/test.txt/", "C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\ROMS\\test.txt\\")){
		trace("jolly good, we got the url");
	}else{
		trace("poor show what, no url!");
	}
	geturl_action = "versionNum";	
}else{
	trace("no net connection!");
}
	
function on_geturl(type, msg){
	trace("on_geturl() msg = " + msg);
	if(msg){

	}
}

this traces;

"we are connected to the net
poor show what, no url!"

Which is to say that the internet connection is detected but the getUrl method returns false, without triggering the on_geturl() function.

Your help would be greatly apreciated.
Jon

[SWFKit]

The onGetUrl event is used to check whether there is any problem when downloading the remote file, and how many bytes has been downloaded. If the remote file does not exist, the getUrl method just returns false without firing the onGetUrl event.

[jon]

I was about to whinge but then i checked what i actually posted. As written, your right, that code has little chance of working. I tried a lot of variations in the course of trying to get it to work before i posted and it seems I posted the wrong one as an example. The getUrl line should be;

if(inet.getUrl("http://www.cell-media.com/test.txt", "C:\\Program Files\\Common Files\\ROMS\\test.txt")){

that trailing slash does make a difference. This file does exist, the program behaves the same with this syntax.

[jon]

Sorry to harp on about this but its very inconvenient for me. As far as I can tell the getUrl function does not behave as expected.

Here is a sample file.

[jon]

The problem was that the directory i was downloading the file into did not exist. I assumed it would be created automatically but i was wrong.

[jon]

Well, I'm learning a bit about the getUrl function but I still dont understand it all.

The onGetUrl function fires before the whole file is downloaded.

What should I do to download a file and only do the next function once the file is downloaded?

[SWFKit]

The "getUrl" method works like:

function getUrl(url, filename) {
  if (!open_remote_file(url)) return false;

  while ((bytes = read_remote_file(url)) > 0) {
    if (error) {
      onGetUrl(error);
      return false;
    }
    onGetUrl(bytes);
    write_data(filename, bytes);
  }
  
  return true;
}