FTP

[Jim Ault]

On 12/28/05 11:55 AM, "Jeff Honken" <jhonken at x12.info> wrote:

> I've never used FTP with Runrev but doesn't he have to have a FTP server
> on his end to upload the files to?  He said that he'd created a
> directory and can access it but can he access it with FTP? Just
> wondering. I have to write an app here soon that uses FTP.  Jeff
> 
You are correct about the FTP server.
On a Mac using OSX, it is very easy to set up an FTP service on the computer
you are using, however you have to have a static IP on your network for
those outside to be able to ping your server.

In my case I have both a Mac OSX FTP server with static IP and a few hosted
ftp sites where I have login/password access, and of course, they have setup
the static IP addresses & domain names.

Further, if you have a static IP but no domain name, that address is used in
place of the 'domainName.com' as in
ftp://username:password@ftp.123.444.55.678/drop/

As you contemplate the app building, do research the built-in library of FTP
commands and features.  Also search for example Rev stacks that have been
built and readily available.
 
Hope this helps.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Jan
> Schenkel
> Sent: Wednesday, December 28, 2005 11:42 AM
> To: How to use Revolution
> Subject: Re: FTP
> 
> --- Marty Knapp <martyknapp at comcast.net> wrote:
>> I'm trying to to build a simple app so that my boys
>> can send me 
>> Quicktime movies that are too big to email. I put
>> togther a stack with a
>> button set for drag and drop with the following
>> script:
>> 
>> on dragdrop
>>   put empty into fld "LogData"
>>   get the dragdata
>>   if it is not empty then
>>     libURLftpUploadFile
>> it,"ftp://username:password@ftp.mydomain.com/drop/"
>> --"drop" is a 
>> directory that I've created and can access
>>     libUrlSetLogField the long id of fld "LogData"
>>   else beep
>> end dragdrop
>> 
>> the file is not uploaded and I get this message:
>> 
>> 220 ProFTPD 1.3.0rc2 Server (Main FTP Server)
>> [64.40.144.138]
>> 331 Password required for username.
>> 230 User username logged in.
>> 257 "/" is current directory.
>> 221 Goodbye.
>> CLOSED
>> 
>> What am I doing wrong?
>> 
>> 
>> Marty Knapp
>> 
> 
> Hi Marty,
> 
> It could be that you have to supply a filename and not
> a directory in the uploadURL parameter.
> I'd modify your handler to something like and see if
> that works:
> --
> on dragdrop
>   put empty into fld "LogData"
>   --> you should only have to set the log field once
>   libUrlSetLogField the long id of fld "LogData"
>   put the dragdata into tFilePath
>   if tFilePath is not empty then
>     set the itemDelimiter to "/"
>     put item -1 of tFilePath into tFileName
>     put
> "ftp://username:password@ftp.mydomain.com/drop/" & \
>         tFileName into tUploadURL
>     libURLftpUploadFile tFilePath, tUploadURL
>   else beep
> end dragdrop
> --
> 
> Hope this helped,
> 
> Jan Schenkel.
> 
> Quartam Reports for Revolution
> <http://www.quartam.com>
> 
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