New Release: Wifi Http/ftp Download App

[dbeyer3069]

I'm happy to announce the release of my first application (one of many) for the PSP.

FOR VERSION 1.5 -- PLEASE TEST ON LOADERS AND LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS.

This application, URL2PSP does the following:

It allows you to download files (binary) through http:// or ftp:// (public) protocol directly to your PSP by entering the URLS at our website (since the PSP has no easy input method!). This is a FREE program and service and we hope everyone will find it as useful as we do (It really moves - 17K per second has been about the slowest so far!).

You may download the program here:

www.bestsoftworks.com/fileshare.htm

As soon as possible, the file will be uploaded to this website's file area. This is a BETA release and has been tested heavily and works great!

PLEASE read the included readme.txt file in the .zip as well as the instructions at the above web address before use.

Please enjoy and provide feedback!

David Beyer

[st.jimmy]

Sweet, I've spent so long trying to download from ftp links, but now I have a psp!

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by st.jimmy

Sweet, I've spent so long trying to download from ftp links, but now I have a psp!

I'm really excited about this new product. Not only because it's my first release (I am working on a game also) but because it's so badly needed on the PSP unit. New FTP/HTTP apps will be rolling out quickly from now on from all sort of people!

Have you tried the program yet?

I got a 20K/sec transfer rate earlier on a bad connection!

David Beyer

[Psilocybeing]

Nice release debeyer. Just a thought about download speeds, you may be able to up the write speeds to the MS by using the PSPs own IO functions(if you're using fopen/fwrite currently that is).

Check out the work 'bulb' has done in the following thread
Slow PNG encode? Memory stick issue?

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by Psilocybeing

Nice release debeyer. Just a thought about download speeds, you may be able to up the write speeds to the MS by using the PSPs own IO functions(if you're using fopen/fwrite currently that is).

Check out the work 'bulb' has done in the following thread
Slow PNG encode? Memory stick issue?

I did use fwrite() as it was native for LIBCURL. Have you done some speed tests (or know) how significant it may be to move to the sceIo() functions?

Did you try the program? Like it? I'm eager for feedback.

Thank you for the positive comments.

David Beyer

[A_Lorax]

Thanks for the program - it looks like a decent project.

I want to use your program to test the bandwidth available on a wireless connection and at the moment i'm having to manually time the download to calculate its speed. Would it be possible to show the current speed and % progress in URL2PSP?

Thanks

[danzel]

@A_Lorax - grab this:
http://localhost.geek.nz/crap/dltest.tar.gz
its a quick hack of a speed test program, gives you various links to download (loaded from a file) and tells you how fast it got downloaded, read the included README.
(DO NOT POST THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE OR DOWNLOAD PAGE, ITS A QUICK HACK, ILL RELEASE A REAL VERSION AT SOME STAGE)

@dbeyer3069 - nice work, looking good.

[Psilocybeing]

Originally Posted by dbeyer3069

I did use fwrite() as it was native for LIBCURL. Have you done some speed tests (or know) how significant it may be to move to the sceIo() functions?

Did you try the program? Like it? I'm eager for feedback.

Thank you for the positive comments.

David Beyer

Bulb seemed to be able to get a siginificant boost in speeds, up to around about 150kbps for sceIo.

edit: currently I'm stuck without WiFi access, due to my old router packing up, so I can't test it right now. I'll run round to my mums place some time, as she has a wireless router I could use .

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by A_Lorax

Thanks for the program - it looks like a decent project.

I want to use your program to test the bandwidth available on a wireless connection and at the moment i'm having to manually time the download to calculate its speed. Would it be possible to show the current speed and % progress in URL2PSP?

Thanks

I will add a per second transfer rate in there in the next release. The % transfer is next to the "download" in the upper right pane.

Thanks!

David Beyer

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by danzel

@A_Lorax - grab this:
http://localhost.geek.nz/crap/dltest.tar.gz
its a quick hack of a speed test program, gives you various links to download (loaded from a file) and tells you how fast it got downloaded, read the included README.
(DO NOT POST THIS ON THE FRONT PAGE OR DOWNLOAD PAGE, ITS A QUICK HACK, ILL RELEASE A REAL VERSION AT SOME STAGE)

@dbeyer3069 - nice work, looking good.

BTW. I will be releasing a quick windows APP to generate a text file that the program can pull in - for those that don't want to use the web site. I understand some people may not want to use a website to enter the urls -- for whatever reason. It's a work in progress.

David Beyer

[AnonymousTipster]

Seems like a nice little project, good to see you've got libcurl working well. For reference, does the 2.0 browser support FTP?

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by AnonymousTipster

Seems like a nice little project, good to see you've got libcurl working well. For reference, does the 2.0 browser support FTP?

LIBCURL is pretty easy to use and straight-forward. I need to figure out resume mode on downloads (I think it's just a matter of calculating the starting offset and plugging that in). Some things you have to guess at and play with to see if it gives you the results you want (such as how to download binary files via HTTP).

I will turn out a new version later this week with the ability to read urls from a text file..and then interest will pick up. A number of people have used it already (nice to see). It was written for myself to use... if others like it too then it's a bonus.

David Beyer

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by dbeyer3069

I'm happy to announce the release of my first application (one of many) for the PSP.

FOR VERSION 1.5 -- PLEASE TEST ON LOADERS AND LET ME KNOW IF IT WORKS.

David Beyer

Feedback has been very positive and a number of people are using it (according to them).

The next release will be around the end of the week and will include:

>>> kbps transfer rate reporting
>>> automatic skipping of files if they will exceed the memory stick storage.
>>> the ability to import the files you want to download from a textfile instead. Those already using the website can continue to do so. Both options will work.
>>> automatic relocation of PSP compatible images, video and sound files into their proper directory if you enable the feature.

Other suggestions are welcome before the next release. Feedback on loaders would be appreciated (my PSP is 1.5 already).

David Beyer

[hàrléyg²]

this is a great project, maybe you could release the source?

i think it would help other projects if you did

PS - if you already haev ignor this i aint tried it yet

[English]

Great work mate. Are you planning on allowing us to enter the url straight from the psp, rather than having to go to a website?

Also I think we could really do with a bittorrent client on the psp. Rather than having to leave my PC on all night, in my room, i could just switch the psp on and leave that going. No noise......

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by harleyg

this is a great project, maybe you could release the source?

i think it would help other projects if you did

PS - if you already haev ignor this i aint tried it yet

If at some point I move away from the web access support for entering urls I will release source. Unfortunately, there are server handshakes that go on with my website that I don't want to disclose to the novice. I'd have to bundle them up into a seperate .o file and release the rest of the code. It's not a high priority right now as I am still working on the app.

David Beyer

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by English

Great work mate. Are you planning on allowing us to enter the url straight from the psp, rather than having to go to a website?

Also I think we could really do with a bittorrent client on the psp. Rather than having to leave my PC on all night, in my room, i could just switch the psp on and leave that going. No noise......

I'm interested in a bit torrent or kazaa client as well and if I had source for either, I would do a port for it. I am going to include the option of importing the urls from a text file instead of the web site in the next release. There are a lot of people using the web site so I'll have both options.

Entering a url on the psp unit itself would be very time consuming. That's why I elected for the web entry (and future text file entry). By the time you get to that point, probably moving to a full blown browser would make sense (at least in my mind).

David Beyer

[spE*zero]

it dont work for 2.00. it exits when it says "programming finished" then it just goes to the ebootloader menu. then i have an empty folder named downloads which i think should be downlaoded urls in ther? but i cant even start the program.

*2.00 tester here!

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by spE*zero

it dont work for 2.00. it exits when it says "programming finished" then it just goes to the ebootloader menu. then i have an empty folder named downloads which i think should be downlaoded urls in ther? but i cant even start the program.

*2.00 tester here!

Interesting. If you have the downloads directory (and you didn't create it yourself) then the program loaded and started running. That directory is created by the application about the time the network is accessed. Downloads would contain the file downloads when they are completed. The message you are seeing sounds like it is working -- is the blue URL2PSP application screen poping up? You see "program finished..." message and then it exits?

Did you enter urls on the website (is there a list to download under your mac address?). If it doesn't find urls on the website under your mac address it will exit right away after telling you it couldn't find any.

Thanks for testing under 2.0.

David Beyer

[spE*zero]

the downloads folder came when i started the app. i didnt make it. and heres what happend...http://70.241.68.0/Videos/httpsp/httpsp.rar

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by spE*zero

the downloads folder came when i started the app. i didnt make it. and heres what happend...http://70.241.68.0/Videos/httpsp/httpsp.rar

Thank you for that video. It was very helpful. I didn't see the msg I was expecting about the url list being missing but I also didn't see anything else happen (like an attempted download). If you provide me with your MAC address I will look up the database records and try to figure out what's going on. PLEASE EMAIL it to me for your privacy. It looks like whatever is happening is likely very minor and can be resolved without a change to the program (my hunch).

David Beyer

[spE*zero]

uhh naw im good i guess it dont work for 2.00...

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by spE*zero

uhh naw im good i guess it dont work for 2.00...

The application may work perfectly fine in 2.0 if all the required steps are taken. It sounds like you may not have entered urls into the website.

I'll wait patiently for someone else to provide feedback.

David Beyer

[planetusa]

Here's for resume support: (they are curl opts)

CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM

Pass a long as parameter. It contains the offset in number of bytes that you want the transfer to start from. Set this option to 0 to make the transfer start from the beginning (effectively disabling resume).

CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE

Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. It contains the offset in number of bytes that you want the transfer to start from. (Added in 7.11.0)


Michael

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by planetusa

Here's for resume support: (they are curl opts)

CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM

Pass a long as parameter. It contains the offset in number of bytes that you want the transfer to start from. Set this option to 0 to make the transfer start from the beginning (effectively disabling resume).

CURLOPT_RESUME_FROM_LARGE

Pass a curl_off_t as parameter. It contains the offset in number of bytes that you want the transfer to start from. (Added in 7.11.0)

Michael

Thanks. I saw these but haven't had time to try them yet. As you know, there are 100000 things that would be nice to add into something, but you have to pick your battles and prioritize Suprisingly, I haven't seen too many wlan apps coming out yet - much be bigger projects they are working on (like my game).

That curl library makes things very easy. It's a nice tool.

David Beyer

[dbeyer3069]

I will be releasing a new update to URL2PSP in the next day or so. I have made a number of improvements to it:

File Resume mode added
Kbps reporting
URLS may be placed in a text file or you can use the website
Free memory stick space is reported on the screen

also to be added in the release:

skipping of files if they will exceed memory stick storage
automated relocation of media files (sound, pictures, video) to PSP directories

still looking into:

making it work with eLoader. V09 doesn't work with it for some reason (not determined yet -- waiting to hear back from eloader guys).

David Beyer

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by spE*zero

uhh naw im good i guess it dont work for 2.00...

I tested with V09 of eloader and didn't get as far as you did (as shown in the video). I am waiting to hear back from the eloader guys to try to get this resolved.

David Beyer

[Shatterdome]

Hey, you might want to check out this thread --> http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.p...ow+write+speed

as someone else was having a hard time getting good write speeds to the MS, and it had to do with aligning the mem to 64 before writing...

it's down near the bottom where they talk about it...doing that may help the transfer speeds...

[dbeyer3069]

Originally Posted by Shatterdome

Hey, you might want to check out this thread --> http://forums.ps2dev.org/viewtopic.p...ow+write+speed

as someone else was having a hard time getting good write speeds to the MS, and it had to do with aligning the mem to 64 before writing...

it's down near the bottom where they talk about it...doing that may help the transfer speeds...

Thanks, I will check it out.

David Beyer

[dbeyer3069]

Thank you everyone for your feedback, support and patience. I added a number of new features to the program.

URL2PSP v01.1 for the PSP v1.5 and 2.0 using eLoader.

Changes in v01.1 of this program:

* Fully compatible with V2.0 firmware of the PSP when running eLoader.

* Urls can be listed in "PSP/GAME/URL2PSP/urls.txt" if you don't want to use the website.

* Paths are not hard coded in the application anymore in order to make it work better with the PSP 2.0 and eLoader.

* The downloads directory has been relocated to be under PSP/GAME/URL2PSP. The FULL path now is /PSP/GAME/URL2PSP/DOWNLOADS

* When possible and supported by the host server, file resumes are supported and automatic.

* If possible, the program will follow "redirects" in http download operations. This will make a few more urls possible that weren't before.

* Encoded urls that contain %'s will be decoded fully (this was fixed).

* Free space on the memory stick and a "low space" warning are now shown on the screen.

* The "exit" button has been changed to be the "start" button in order to make the
application work with 2.0 firmware and eLoader.

* If the free space on the memory stick is less than the file size you are trying to
download, the file will be skipped automatically.

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You may download the program here or in the file listings on this site if supported:

http://bestsoftworks.com/url2pspv011.zip

Please read the included readme.txt file before using!

Enjoy!

David Beyer