FTP troubles

[Klaus Major]

Hi Brendan,

i am not sure but try this little change of the script below:

> Hi List,
>
> I'm wondering if anyone can help me with this problem...
>
> I have the following script that attempts to send a jpeg via ftp to a
> server.
>
> on mouseUp
>   global tUrl
>   put
> "ftp://me:mypassword@intranet.myserver.vic.edu.au/img/testfile.jpg" 
> into
> tUrl
>   answer file  with filter "JPEGs,*.jpg"
>   ###put URL "binfile:/"&it into tUploadData

    put URL("binfile:" & it) into tUploadData
    ## the engine needs to build the correct string first
    ## and then resolve the complete string...
    ## At least it's worth a try ;-)

>   liburlftpupload url tUploadData,url tURL,"seeit"
> end mouseUp
>
>
> The same file works okay using other FTP apps, but with Revolution, the
> file arrives at its destination, but is not a valid Jpeg and when 
> opened
> in a text editor, simply displays the local path as a string. Can 
> anyone
> see what is going wrong. I have tried various approaches but cannot get
> it to FTP binary data it seems.
>
> Cheers
>
> Brendan

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus.major at metascape.org