.ty XML position?

[pidhead]

What is the proper way to seek to the XML data at the end of a .ty file?

Is the offset from the end always the same? I've searched through AVS and DD, but the simple answer isn't jumping out at me.

I'm working on a perl tool to track my downloads, so I thought I'd do it right and use the xml.

Thanks.

[lart2150]

are you talking about the xml that msf_ftp puts in? if so it's right after the last chunk

[pidhead]

yes, the XML at the end of the ty is what I want. I don't know anything about the "chunks" so I am asusming that somewhere in the last 8000 bytes of the file will contain the entire XML. (Probably overkill to seek 8000 back, but it doesn't hurt.)

Are the chunks a specified length?

I am using the following to extract the XML. Are there any problems with the above assumption?

#!/usr/bin/perl

$file = @ARGV[0];

open(ty_file, $file) || die "Unable to open file. \n";

binmode ty_file;

seek(ty_file,-8000,2);

read(ty_file, $buffer, 8000);

$buffer =~ m/\#*\n(<.*>)\n\n\#*/s;

$xml = $1;

print $xml;

close(ty_file);

[sanderton]

Look at the mfs_ftp code to see how Riley puts it in.