• Tyro (17/17) Jun 16 2008 The following snippet downloads a zipfile from the internet if not resid...
• Tyro (8/11) Jun 18 2008 [snip]

Tyro <nospam home.com> writes:

The following snippet downloads a zipfile from the internet if not resident on
my computer. Problem is, it won't move past this point.
I keep getting the error: "Error: ZipException: no end record." How do I solve
this problem?

    ZipArchive zipFile;
    if(!exists(file))
    {
        char[] result = myCurl.downloadToString();
        write(file, result);
        zipFile = new ZipArchive(file);
    }
    else
    {
        zipFile = new ZipArchive(file);
    }

My program works if I always download the file and work directly with it
instead of saving it. But that is way too time consuming. Also, how would I go
about getting a list of the files on the site so that I can then choose the
most current to work with?

Finally, if I download a file using a browser the copy on my computer has all
the original attributes of the one on the remote server, however, that's not
the case when I use download programmatically. Any pointers on how to do this
correctly?

Thanks,
Tyro

Tyro <nospam home.com> writes:

Tyro Wrote:

[snip]
 Also, how would I go about getting a list of the files on the site so that I
can then choose the most current to work with?

[snip]

One way I've gotten this to work is by downloading the page containing the link
and searching it's contents for the regex string:

     jDay~"_[0-9]{4}[.EJRIPZ]{7}"

jDay contains today’s julian day number in the format "YYDDD".

This does the trick but is a still longer than going to the directory on the
remote server and searching for the file that matches the regex.

Still have not found a solution the other three problems but will keep trying.
Any guidance is always greatly appreciated.

 Thanks,
 Tyro