CurlAxel - PHP file download accelerator

[jokerhacker]

Good script, and most definitely good effort right there. But a quick look through it, and the way you're accelerating downloads (using Curl) is not efficient at all. As it stands, curl/php is not good with file streaming/handling. And curl was most definitely not built with multi threaded downloading as it's pioneer or trump feature; it's just there.

I'll go through it in detail and suggest improvements. But beyond that, good effort.

Google 'Aria2' and then Google 'Aria2Web'. Then look through Aria2Web and see if you can create a simpler class based on that for users of KWWH. Aria2 is an excellent command line download accelerator for Linux; and coding a PHP XML-RPC gateway for it, which is simpler (and works) would be a great idea.

i will work on it, i've already started studying it. But i don't want to drop the current project, the aria wrapper will be another project. Because Aria is really good, but those who want to make very small yet smart script, CurlAxel would be better

[Lifetalk]

Hi, Lifetalk,

JokerHacker's idea was originated from my thread here, we already had this discussion, as mentioned in that thread Aria's XML-RPC is very badly documented so it'll be very hard to build as scripts as such with Aria's API, if you're able to prove us wrong, feel free to do so

The XML documentation is non-existent, true. BUT, remember that there's already 2 PHP implementations out there - it's a matter of picking code from one of them, because as it stands, it's way too feature rich (most of them, if not all, not needed). Documentation is not necessary, as long as you have code out there to work with

[Robin H]

Can't seem to download aria2web :/
Firefox says there is an endless loop in the redirect to download

[jokerhacker]

The XML documentation is non-existent, true. BUT, remember that there's already 2 PHP implementations out there - it's a matter of picking code from one of them, because as it stands, it's way too feature rich (most of them, if not all, not needed). Documentation is not necessary, as long as you have code out there to work with

i'll use class-IXR Library for the xmlrpc client

Robin H, me too

[Lifetalk]

Don't you just love it when I keep stuff like that handy with me?

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7114595/aria2web.tar.gz

There you go

EDIT: Fear not, it's untouched.

EDIT 2: Or use the SVN, lol
https://aria2web.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/aria2web/

[jokerhacker]

epic Lifetalk

[jokerhacker]

new version 0.1 :
small bug fixes + GNU GPL Licence

[JmZ]

Good job.

As pretty much everyone on here has heard me say before though, choosing PHP to code some application in which has large amounts of data handling and transfer isn't the best idea. Either way you do it, it'll use quite the amount of memory compared to other languages.

Also do note that download accelerators (in theory, technically) are completely useless unless the server you're downloading from forces some speed limit. Downloading some file at your full speed is obviously going to be the same speed as downloading that same file in multiple streams.

Like I said though, good job.

P.S. Best part of that code is the regex, even if you didn't write it yourself, just because regex is awesome (I wrote 30 lines of it yesterday).

[jokerhacker]

thanks for the infos JmZ
BTW, i love regex too, ( bots work 75% with regexes )

[heppinnz]

this script can download from filesonic.com, etc. ?