Monitor transfers with Net::FTP

jellisii2 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I am doing some large file transfers between machines using Net::FTP. I would like to be able to monitor the progress of said transfers and give the user some feedback. Is there functionality in Net::FTP to do this?

Item of note: On win32 using ActivePerl 5.10. It appears that Net::FTP plays nice with threads (I've been playing around with them), but when I try to introduce threading in with my Tkx code, it bombs wickedly.

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Re: Monitor transfers with Net::FTP by derby (Abbot) on Aug 17, 2009 at 17:19 UTC
Check out the Hash attribute (and hash method) in Net::FTP. -derby	[reply]
Re^2: Monitor transfers with Net::FTP by jellisii2 (Hermit) on Aug 17, 2009 at 19:33 UTC
How do you implement this to where the transfer doesn't just stop the script as it does it? Since I'm on win32 I can't do a fork, and running in a separate thread seems to cause problems when the thread gets returned, crashing wickedly. EG: `while ($ftp->put($file)) { warn "Still putting data!\n"; $ftp->hash("", 1); }` [download] Doesn't work as expected, printing hashes on stdout during the transfer.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Monitor transfers with Net::FTP by derby (Abbot) on Aug 18, 2009 at 12:06 UTC
That's not how you invoke it. Either make your constructor like such: `my $ftp = Net::FTP->new( "some.host.name", Hash => 1);` [download] Or before you call put call the hash method: `$ftp->hash( 1 );` [download] -derby	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Monitor transfers with Net::FTP by Anonymous Monk on Aug 18, 2009 at 20:41 UTC
Re: Monitor transfers with Net::FTP by tokpela (Chaplain) on Aug 17, 2009 at 18:26 UTC
Great tip on the hash function, derby. I just wanted to add when looking up the hash function, I ran across the Net::FTP::Robust module that is specifically made for large downloads. It uses Net::FTP (so you can still use the hash function) but also gives additional logging and error trapping.	[reply]
Re^2: Monitor transfers with Net::FTP by jellisii2 (Hermit) on Aug 17, 2009 at 19:12 UTC
Robust does sound like a nice utility, but I'm putting the file, not getting it.	[reply]