FTP Questions

[Richard Gaskin]

Warren Kuhl wrote:
> I am working on a application that needs to upload multiple files to a
> server. I see there are multiple ways to take care of this:
> 
> ie.
> put url("binfiles:" & tFile) into url turl
> -or-
> libURLftpUploadFile command
> 
> My question is...is one way better then the other as far as efficiency,
> error checking, etc?
> 
> Also...I have encountered the message 'Error - Previous request in
> process" and the FTP doesn't work. What does this mean? How can I get around
> this?

I believe the difference is that "put url..." is a blocking call, so 
that no further attempts will be made until the last one has completed.

FWIW I use "put url..." in my WebMerge product, and we have some 
customers uploading tens of thousands of files in a batch without error.

I wish I could take credit for that, but it's all Dave Cragg's excellent 
work in libURL.  Thanks, Dave!

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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