CurlAxel - PHP file download accelerator

[soft2050]

Why not do it if I can? Wouldn't it be great to improve the download speeds in RL?
And if PHP 5.3 is required, then so be it, why would you let that stop you?

And what makes you think that it will increase the speed? The base is still curl! If you are really looking to increase the speed in rl, then embed the downloading through other programming languages that can help in faster progressing and downloading

Not to mention that the downloading page will lag as usual even with curl since curl progress also outputs the data over page on change!

[Robin H]

I also think RapidLeech has reached it's limit and a new platform should be thought out.
pyload seems to be the best imo.

But I have 0% expercience in python and don't really have the time to study it.

One should also check Node.js
It has some serious potential aswell.

[CuraHack]

And what makes you think that it will increase the speed? The base is still curl! If you are really looking to increase the speed in rl, then embed the downloading through other programming languages that can help in faster progressing and downloading

Not to mention that the downloading page will lag as usual even with curl since curl progress also outputs the data over page on change!

It will increase the performance, to prove my point here's a screenshot I made while testing a 1GB file download with jokerhacker's script. I only got 33MB/s with a normal WGET while I had speeds of over 100MB/s using CurlAxel.

[Robin H]

^
I can also show screenshot where axel got me slower speeds than just wget.

I'm ok with this project tho.
But I'd like it more if everyone focused it's energy on something more useful.

[soft2050]

It will increase the performance, to prove my point here's a screenshot I made while testing a 1GB file download with jokerhacker's script. I only got 33MB/s with a normal WGET while I had speeds of over 100MB/s using CurlAxel.

WGET
Check with fsockopen or stream_socket_client

[jokerhacker]

i know that CurlAxel is not complete... yet
you know, i'm busy these days so i can't focus on it, it has many bugs that will be fixed soon. curl is not the perfect library to use, but it's the most portable one, and php has full support for it. I'll study this and see if there is a better method to use. For now, my main update for the next version (will be launched soon) is the Callback function since they are required for progress bars. And i'll see that problem with the last part file
thanks for the use and the feedback guys. This will surely help in CurlAxel's development.

[CuraHack]

Hey JokerHacker,

I've been working on the pogress output myself too, I managed to get CurlAxel to output the pogress, but only when it's already finished, I guess I have to work on the flush() function.

Here are some links:
http://forums.devnetwork.net/viewtop...127436#p644425
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=652156
http://www.ireallyhost.com/blog/2011...with-progress/

Please contact me!

[jokerhacker]

updated CurlAxel to version 0.2
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+ added support for various server responses
+ fixed filesize issue when requested server doesn't allow download accelerating
+ added support for cookies (passed as string)
+ added support for standard curl progress callback functon

[jokerhacker]

updated to version 0.5 30/10/11 (see main post)

[chems]

i really love the new changes