libURLftpUploadFile insanity

[Dave Cragg]

On 25 Jun 2006, at 04:07, stevex64 wrote:

>
> This one should be simple and it's driving me insane! Here is the  
> code:
>
> on mouseUp
>   answer file "Select a file to upload"
>   put "me at mydomain.com" into userName
>   put "myPW" into userPassword
>   put "ftp.mydomain.com" into myServer
>
>   put "ftp://" & URLEncode(userName) & ":" & userPassword & "@" &  
> myServer
> into myFTPURL
>   libURLftpUploadFile it, myFTPURL
>   put libUrlErrorData(myFTPURL)
> end mouseUp
>
> After I get the select file dialog box and select the file I want  
> to upload,
> I always get this message, "invalid URL:"

The url has to be a path to a file on the server, not just the server  
itself. For example,

   put "ftp://" & URLEncode(userName) & ":" \
       & userPassword & "@" & myServer & "/myFile.txt" \
       into myFTPURL

Dave