Thank you for making things clear!
I will pipeline the URL to a hard disk file for now
even though it would be nicer to have a direct Stream
but 100 lines !? I thought we were talking dozens of
lines... hehe Thank you for the expert's insight
JD

--- Gerd Stolpmann <info@gerd-stolpmann.de> wrote:

> Am Montag, den 13.03.2006, 00:03 -0800 schrieb
> Jean-David:
> > Hello there,
> > I was wondering about the best way to create a
> stream
> > from a remote file for which I have the URL
> > 
> > open Http_client
> > open Stream
> > 
> > let body = Stream.of_string Convenience.http_get
> > "http://dfl.sjsu.edu";;
> > 
> > Is the content of body downloaded completely
> before
> > being streamed(which defeats the purpose of
> streams)
> > or not? and if not how can I get the content of an
> URL
> > gradually (without getting the whole body into
> > memory)?
> 
> Yes, Convenience.http_get always downloads the whole
> body into a string.
> 
> For a stream-like download, you must use the
> pipeline interface. For
> example, to store the body into a file do:
> 
> let call = new get "http://dfl.sjsu.edu" in
> call # set_response_body_storage (`File (fun () ->
> "filename"));
> let pipeline = new pipeline in
> pipeline # set_proxy_from_environment();
> pipeline # run()
> 
> Now check call#status whether the HTTP request was
> successfully
> responded.
> 
> If you want to postprocess the body while it is
> downloaded, things will
> get more complicated. In particular, it is possible
> to store the body in
> an object that fulfils the Netmime.mime_body class
> type. Netclient
> invokes the open_value_wr method and outputs into
> this netchannel. Using
> this mechanism to define a callback-style interface
> (i.e. a function is
> called whenever a chunk of data arrives) can be
> implemented in a
> straight-forward manner.
> 
> If you really need a "string Stream.t": This is
> possible because
> Netclient is programmed in an event-driven way, but
> is very difficult,
> because you must arrange a so-called control
> inversion. This is
> absolutely non-trivial but implementable in less
> than 100 lines of code.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Gerd
> 
> > 
> > Thank you,
> > JD
> > 
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