HTTP-Download (Multithreading)

[VBTricks.de.vu Webmaster]

Hello,

at the moment I'm not able to finish my program. That means, I have a
problem I can't solve myself. Therefore I'm asking those who already
worked with HttpWebRequest... and threads.

I'm writing some kind of download-manager, which is able to download
several files parallely. Therefore I've created a class implementing the
download function and use four threads which use four instances of the
class. This works fine, except the cancelling of downloads. After a
download-thread has been cancelled, it is not able to download any files
with this thread.

How the program works:
The source for the downloadclass I got from the .net-Documentation and
enhanced in some points.
The download form has arrays for the class-instances, boolvalues
(instance busy or not) and threads (calling StartDownload-function of
classes).
A timer (timWatchTimer) cares for the single threads. If a thread is not
busy anymore (boolvalue bThreadWorking) the next download is started for
this thread (StartNextDownload).

I removed all unnecessary code for a better overview. The sample project
can be found at:
http://vbtricks.vb.funpic.de/vbarchiv/dstest.zip.
The sample has been written using SharpDevelop, but in the subfolder VS
you find a VS-export of the project. The source does have comments but
if there any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them. I'm really up
to solve this problem as I want to finish my program.
Please help me,

Stefan
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[Ken Tucker [MVP]]

Hi,

If you are using windows xp bits might be best way to go.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...un02282003.asp

Ken
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Hello,

at the moment I'm not able to finish my program. That means, I have a
problem I can't solve myself. Therefore I'm asking those who already
worked with HttpWebRequest... and threads.

I'm writing some kind of download-manager, which is able to download
several files parallely. Therefore I've created a class implementing the
download function and use four threads which use four instances of the
class. This works fine, except the cancelling of downloads. After a
download-thread has been cancelled, it is not able to download any files
with this thread.

How the program works:
The source for the downloadclass I got from the .net-Documentation and
enhanced in some points.
The download form has arrays for the class-instances, boolvalues
(instance busy or not) and threads (calling StartDownload-function of
classes).
A timer (timWatchTimer) cares for the single threads. If a thread is not
busy anymore (boolvalue bThreadWorking) the next download is started for
this thread (StartNextDownload).

I removed all unnecessary code for a better overview. The sample project
can be found at:
http://vbtricks.vb.funpic.de/vbarchiv/dstest.zip.
The sample has been written using SharpDevelop, but in the subfolder VS
you find a VS-export of the project. The source does have comments but
if there any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them. I'm really up
to solve this problem as I want to finish my program.
Please help me,

Stefan
--
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components, tips & complete projects

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[Inge Henriksen]

I wonder if you shouldnt read the data sent from the web server before
closing down the connection. Like this I guess:

Dim asynchronousInputRead As IAsyncResult = _
responseStream.BeginRead(myRequestState.BufferRead , _
0, 1024, _
New AsyncCallback(AddressOf ReadCallBack), _
myRequestState)
' Now try and close
FinishedProc(StatusCodes.iErrorOccurred, _
ErrorCodes.iUserCancelled)
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Hello,

at the moment I'm not able to finish my program. That means, I have a
problem I can't solve myself. Therefore I'm asking those who already
worked with HttpWebRequest... and threads.

I'm writing some kind of download-manager, which is able to download
several files parallely. Therefore I've created a class implementing the
download function and use four threads which use four instances of the
class. This works fine, except the cancelling of downloads. After a
download-thread has been cancelled, it is not able to download any files
with this thread.

How the program works:
The source for the downloadclass I got from the .net-Documentation and
enhanced in some points.
The download form has arrays for the class-instances, boolvalues (instance
busy or not) and threads (calling StartDownload-function of classes).
A timer (timWatchTimer) cares for the single threads. If a thread is not
busy anymore (boolvalue bThreadWorking) the next download is started for
this thread (StartNextDownload).

I removed all unnecessary code for a better overview. The sample project
can be found at:
http://vbtricks.vb.funpic.de/vbarchiv/dstest.zip.
The sample has been written using SharpDevelop, but in the subfolder VS
you find a VS-export of the project. The source does have comments but if
there any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them. I'm really up to
solve this problem as I want to finish my program.
Please help me,

Stefan
--
___________________________________www.VBTricks.de .vu
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components, tips & complete projects

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[Tom Shelton]

On 2005-07-07, VBTricks.de.vu Webmaster <no****@thisserverdoesntexist.com> wrote:

Hello,

at the moment I'm not able to finish my program. That means, I have a
problem I can't solve myself. Therefore I'm asking those who already
worked with HttpWebRequest... and threads.

I'm writing some kind of download-manager, which is able to download
several files parallely. Therefore I've created a class implementing the
download function and use four threads which use four instances of the
class. This works fine, except the cancelling of downloads. After a
download-thread has been cancelled, it is not able to download any files
with this thread.

How the program works:
The source for the downloadclass I got from the .net-Documentation and
enhanced in some points.
The download form has arrays for the class-instances, boolvalues
(instance busy or not) and threads (calling StartDownload-function of
classes).
A timer (timWatchTimer) cares for the single threads. If a thread is not
busy anymore (boolvalue bThreadWorking) the next download is started for
this thread (StartNextDownload).

I removed all unnecessary code for a better overview. The sample project
can be found at:
http://vbtricks.vb.funpic.de/vbarchiv/dstest.zip.
The sample has been written using SharpDevelop, but in the subfolder VS
you find a VS-export of the project. The source does have comments but
if there any questions, please don't hesitate to ask them. I'm really up
to solve this problem as I want to finish my program.
Please help me,

Stefan

If your on a 2K or higher system and don't need to support 9x, then I
agree with Ken - use BITS. If you don't like the wrapper in the article
he pointed out, I have one that I wrote in C# ages ago :) And, yes, the
library does work with VB.NET. In fact, when I wrote it - I wrote the
wrapper in C#, but wrote the test app in VB.NET to make sure it would
work...
Anyway, as for the threads... I haven't really looked at the code so
I'm not sure what your doing here. I just wanted to interject my support
of BITS :) I have downloaded the project, and if I get a moment, I'll
see if I can see anything that strikes me as out of place :)

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[VBTricks.de.vu Webmaster]

Hello,

sorry for replying that late. The problem could be fixed by ensuring
that the response-stream has been closed when the download is cancelled.
Stefan

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