Wow, thanks to Felipe's and Michael's quick response. Haskell community is so kind.

I will try your suggestions right now!


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 9:46 PM, Michael Snoyman <michael@snoyman.com> wrote:
Here's an example of printing the total number of bytes consumed using http-conduit:

import           Control.Monad.IO.Class (liftIO)
import qualified Data.ByteString        as S
import           Data.Conduit
import           Data.Conduit.Binary    as CB
import           Network.HTTP.Conduit

main :: IO ()
main = withManager $ \manager -> do
    req <- parseUrl "http://www.yesodweb.com/"
    res <- http req manager
    responseBody res $$+- printProgress =$ CB.sinkFile "yesodweb.html"

printProgress :: Conduit S.ByteString (ResourceT IO) S.ByteString
printProgress =
    loop 0
  where
    loop len = await >>= maybe (return ()) (\bs -> do
        let len' = len + S.length bs
        liftIO $ putStrLn $ "Bytes consumed: " ++ show len'
        yield bs
        loop len')


HTH,
Michael


On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 3:34 PM, Cedric Fung <root@vec.io> wrote:
Hi,

Are there any suggestions to download a large file with Haskell? I have read the docs for Network, Network.HTTP and Network.HTTP.Conduit, but can't find anything which fit my requirements.

I want to download a large file from an HTTP URL, and show the progress instantly. Maybe some functions which read HTTP connection and return a lazy ByteString could do this work?

Though I found a low-level socket lazy package, which seems to work, I just want a more high level API.

Thanks and regards.

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