Stopping FTP uploads

[iGerbil]

Does anyone know how to stop FTP uploads initiated with libURLftpUploadFile ?

You can set a callback message, but there is not evident command to stop the FTP session; you normally use CTRL-C when working from terminal, but from Livecode ?

It can be useful if a large upload is in progress and you want to stop it or reset because there was a drop in internet connection (FTP in Livecode seems to detect only server-generated errors; if you or someone else unplug the cable it juts hangs there forever)

[Mark]

Hi,

This cancels the upload:

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unload URL myFtpUrl

where myFtpUrl contains an URL starting with "ftp://".

Mark

[iGerbil]

Great, thanks a lot !!

[jrahl]

Hey,

How can I cancel a download on a mobile device? For other platforms 'unload' and 'resetAll' seem to be the trick, but neither of those are supported for mobile (according to the Dictionary).

Regards,
Jaimee

[cmhjon]

Hello,

I am building an FTP uploader app and tried the unload URL script shown above but it doesn't seem to stop an upload in progress.

Can anyone explain further how this is supposed to work? Script examples?

New to LC.

Thanks,
Jon

[Simon]

Hi Jon,
Try the resetAll
as long as you are not talking about mobile.

Simon

[cmhjon]

Hi Simon,

I'd be grateful for a script example.

Thank you so much,
Jon

[Simon]

Hi Jon,
The Dictionary is your best friend

Examples:
if the openSockets is not empty then resetAll

Now if you examine that you'll see that you don't really need anything more than resetAll, the rest is all if...then.

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on mouseUp
resetAll
end mouseUp

But an if/then check can be useful to check for a specific socket and then you'd "close socket" so only one gets closed. (see the Dictionary)

Simon

[cmhjon]

Thank you, Simon!

The resetAll function did the trick. Strange that the unload URL didn't.

Thanks again!
Jon

[jacque]

Unload URL removes a downloaded file from RAM. It doesn't apply to uploading.