Download from SourceForge
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You can use the Synapse networking library to download files from SourceForge. Because SourceForge stores files on multiple mirrors you have to deal with redirection.
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uses httpsend {a Synapse unit}
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function DownloadHTTPStream(URL: string; Buffer: TStream): boolean;
// Download file; retry if necessary.
const
MaxRetries = 3;
var
RetryAttempt: integer;
HTTPGetResult: boolean;
begin
Result:=false;
RetryAttempt := 1;
HTTPGetResult := False;
while ((HTTPGetResult = False) and (RetryAttempt < MaxRetries)) do
begin
HTTPGetResult := HttpGetBinary(URL, Buffer);
//Application.ProcessMessages;
Sleep(100 * RetryAttempt);
RetryAttempt := RetryAttempt + 1;
end;
if HTTPGetResult = False then
raise Exception.Create('Cannot load document from remote server');
Buffer.Position := 0;
if Buffer.Size = 0 then
raise Exception.Create('Downloaded document is empty.');
Result := True;
end;
function SFDirectLinkURL(URL: string; Document: TMemoryStream): string;
{
Transform this part of the body:
<noscript>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="5; url=http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/base64decoder/base64decoder/version%202.0/b64util.zip?r=&ts=1329648745&use_mirror=kent">
</noscript>
into a valid URL:
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/base64decoder/base64decoder/version%202.0/b64util.zip?r=&ts=1329648745&use_mirror=kent
}
const
Refresh='<meta http-equiv="refresh"';
URLMarker='url=';
var
Counter: integer;
HTMLBody: TStringList;
RefreshStart: integer;
URLStart: integer;
begin
HTMLBody:=TStringList.Create;
try
HTMLBody.LoadFromStream(Document);
for Counter:=0 to HTMLBody.Count-1 do
begin
// This line should be between noscript tags and give the direct download locations:
RefreshStart:=Ansipos(Refresh, HTMLBody[Counter]);
if RefreshStart>0 then
begin
URLStart:=AnsiPos(URLMarker, HTMLBody[Counter])+Length(URLMarker);
if URLStart>RefreshStart then
begin
// Look for closing "
URL:=Copy(HTMLBody[Counter],
URLStart,
PosEx('"',HTMLBody[Counter],URLStart+1)-URLStart);
infoln('debug: new url after sf noscript:');
infoln(URL);
break;
end;
end;
end;
finally
HTMLBody.Free;
end;
result:=URL;
end;
function SourceForgeURL(URL: string): string;
// Detects sourceforge download and tries to deal with
// redirection, and extracting direct download link.
// Thanks to
// Ocye: http://lazarus.freepascal.org/index.php/topic,13425.msg70575.html#msg70575
const
SFProjectPart = '//sourceforge.net/projects/';
SFFilesPart = '/files/';
SFDownloadPart ='/download';
var
HTTPSender: THTTPSend;
i, j: integer;
FoundCorrectURL: boolean;
SFDirectory: string; //Sourceforge directory
SFDirectoryBegin: integer;
SFFileBegin: integer;
SFFilename: string; //Sourceforge name of file
SFProject: string;
SFProjectBegin: integer;
begin
// Detect SourceForge download; e.g. from URL
// 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
// 1234557890123456789012345578901234567890123455789012345678901234557890123456789012345578901234567890
// http://sourceforge.net/projects/base64decoder/files/base64decoder/version%202.0/b64util.zip/download
// ^^^project^^^ ^^^directory............^^^ ^^^file^^^
FoundCorrectURL:=true; //Assume not a SF download
i:=Pos(SFProjectPart, URL);
if i>0 then
begin
// Possibly found project; now extract project, directory and filename parts.
SFProjectBegin:=i+Length(SFProjectPart);
j := PosEx(SFFilesPart, URL, SFProjectBegin);
if (j>0) then
begin
SFProject:=Copy(URL, SFProjectBegin, j-SFProjectBegin);
SFDirectoryBegin:=PosEx(SFFilesPart, URL, SFProjectBegin)+Length(SFFilesPart);
if SFDirectoryBegin>0 then
begin
// Find file
// URL might have trailing arguments... so: search for first
// /download coming up from the right, but it should be after
// /files/
i:=RPos(SFDownloadPart, URL);
// Now look for previous / so we can make out the file
// This might perhaps be the trailing / in /files/
SFFileBegin:=RPosEx('/',URL,i-1)+1;
if SFFileBegin>0 then
begin
SFFilename:=Copy(URL,SFFileBegin, i-SFFileBegin);
//Include trailing /
SFDirectory:=Copy(URL, SFDirectoryBegin, SFFileBegin-SFDirectoryBegin);
FoundCorrectURL:=false;
end;
end;
end;
end;
if not FoundCorrectURL then
begin
try
// Rewrite URL if needed for Sourceforge download redirection
// Detect direct link in HTML body and get URL from that
HTTPSender := THTTPSend.Create;
//Who knows, this might help:
HTTPSender.UserAgent:='curl/7.21.0 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.18';
while not FoundCorrectURL do
begin
HTTPSender.HTTPMethod('GET', URL);
infoln('debug: headers:');
infoln(HTTPSender.Headers.Text);
case HTTPSender.Resultcode of
301, 302, 307:
begin
for i := 0 to HTTPSender.Headers.Count - 1 do
if (Pos('Location: ', HTTPSender.Headers.Strings[i]) > 0) or
(Pos('location: ', HTTPSender.Headers.Strings[i]) > 0) then
begin
j := Pos('use_mirror=', HTTPSender.Headers.Strings[i]);
if j > 0 then
URL :=
'http://' + RightStr(HTTPSender.Headers.Strings[i],
length(HTTPSender.Headers.Strings[i]) - j - 10) +
'.dl.sourceforge.net/project/' +
SFProject + '/' + SFDirectory + SFFilename
else
URL:=StringReplace(
HTTPSender.Headers.Strings[i], 'Location: ', '', []);
HTTPSender.Clear;//httpsend
FoundCorrectURL:=true;
break; //out of rewriting loop
end;
end;
100..200:
begin
//Assume a sourceforge timer/direct link page
URL:=SFDirectLinkURL(URL, HTTPSender.Document); //Find out
FoundCorrectURL:=true; //We're done by now
end;
500: raise Exception.Create('No internet connection available');
//Internal Server Error ('+aURL+')');
else
raise Exception.Create('Download failed with error code ' +
IntToStr(HTTPSender.ResultCode) + ' (' + HTTPSender.ResultString + ')');
end;//case
end;//while
infoln('debug: resulting url after sf redir: *' + URL + '*');
finally
HTTPSender.Free;
end;
end;
result:=URL;
end;
Then you can download file using standard method.
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function DownloadHTTP(URL, TargetFile: string): boolean;
// Download file; retry if necessary.
// Deals with SourceForge download links
var
Buffer: TMemoryStream;
begin
result:=false;
URL:=SourceForgeURL(URL); //Deal with sourceforge URLs
try
Buffer := TMemoryStream.Create;
DownloadHTTPStream(URL, Buffer);
Buffer.SaveToFile(TargetFile);
result:=true;
finally
FreeAndNil(Buffer);
end;
end;
