FTP Bandwidth Throttle for Downloads

Demonstrates the Chilkat FTP2 download bandwidth throttling property : BandwidthThrottleDown.

Chilkat Module for Perl 5.8.*

Chilkat Module for Perl 5.10.*

use chilkat;

$ftp = new chilkat::CkFtp2();

#  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
$success = $ftp->UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$ftp->put_Hostname("www.example-code.com");
$ftp->put_Username("****");
$ftp->put_Password("****");

#  To use FTP bandwidth throttling, set the BandwidthThrottleDown
#  property to a maximum desired bytes/second:
#  This example limits the download to 50K per second.
$ftp->put_BandwidthThrottleDown(50000);

#  The default data transfer mode is "Active" as opposed to "Passive".

#  Connect and login to the FTP server.
$success = $ftp->Connect();
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Change to the remote directory where the file is located.
#  This step is only necessary if the file is not in the root directory
#  for the FTP account.
$success = $ftp->ChangeRemoteDir("junk");
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

#  Download a file.
$localFilename = "hamlet.xml";
$remoteFilename = "hamlet.xml";

$success = $ftp->GetFile($remoteFilename,$localFilename);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $ftp->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

$ftp->Disconnect();

print "File Downloaded!" . "\n";