def downloadResource(connection, downloadFolder, localPath, zipName="", timeout=80):
    '''
        This method is used to download an entire folder as an archive or any type of file without changing it's format
        Args:
        - connection is the connection object that manages the HTTP data transfers between the client and the REST API
        - downloadFolder is the folder were the archive/file will be saved
        - localPath is the local path on the machine that holds the IxLoad instance
        - zipName is the name that archive will take, this parameter is mandatory only for folders, if you want to download a file this parameter is not used.
    '''
    downloadResourceUrl = connection.url + "/downloadResource"
    downloadFolder = downloadFolder.replace("\\\\", "\\")
    localPath = localPath.replace("\\", "/")
    parameters = { "localPath": localPath, "zipName": zipName }

    downloadResourceReply = connection.httpRequest('GET', downloadResourceUrl, params= parameters, downloadStream=True, timeout =timeout)

    if not downloadResourceReply.ok:
        raise Exception("Error on executing GET request on url %s: %s" % (downloadResourceUrl, downloadResourceReply.text))

    if not zipName:
        zipName = localPath.split("/")[-1]
    elif zipName.split(".")[-1] != "zip":
        zipName  = zipName + ".zip"
    downloadFile = '/'.join([downloadFolder, zipName])
    try:
        with open(downloadFile, 'wb') as fileHandle:
            for chunk in downloadResourceReply.iter_content(chunk_size=1024):
                fileHandle.write(chunk)
    except IOError:
        log("Could not open or create file, please check path and/or permissions")
        return 2