FTP Error

[Keith Clarke]

Jack, have you considered keeping the returned lists stored in variables or custom properties and just presenting them in fields for user selection? That way, you can ensure that the list items stay as plain text (as sometimes fields will 'interpret' and hide some characters).

For debugging web and server stuff, I tend to avoid fields for storage and set custom properties for anything I need to validate as plain text - before getting the properties back into a concatenation variable as the final URL.
Best,
Keith..   
On 28 Jul 2011, at 17:21, JACK RARICK wrote:

> Keith said: ...maybe try put urlencode(strFINAL) to manage those pesky non-text characters?
> 
> Thank you - I did - and it didn't! Dang. Any chance it might be a DIRECTORY issue? Should I be writing this code for the public_ftp folder? I will try that.
> 
> On 28 Jul 2011, at 17:09, JACK RARICK wrote:
> 
>> I am using an on-rev server. I request the contents of the public_html directory  (FTP) - and I get it.  I now have a list of directories inside of my public_html folder. (strA)
>> 
>> That list is put inside of a scrolling field - and I allow the user to choose a directory. (strB)
>> 
>> I use that request to make another list of the FILES inside of that directory. (Use FTP)  And that works. (That list is put inside of a scrolling field.)
>> 
>> The user is now looking at a list of FILES. The idea is that when the user chooses a file, it will then be downloaded to his/her computer. (strC)
>> 
>> I put together a path to that file name by using pieces from above. strA&"/"&strB&"/"&strC - and let's call it strFINAL
>> 
>> When I use libURLDownloadToFile with the correct parameters it returns "error" - without much else.
>> 
>> When I simply PUT the URL strFINAL into a location on my computer it returns "Can't open /public_html/strA/strB_/Media/strC_" - no such file or directory.
>> 
>> BUT PLEASE NOTICE that somewhere along the line underscores were added at the end of individual parts of my path. I THINK that is my problem. I evaluate the string inside of LC and I do NOT see the underscores, but when the error is returned, the underscores are there.
>> 
>> 1) I do not know if the underscores are the problem, but could they be?
>> 
>> 2) Any other reason this might not be working?
>> 
>> 
>> Thank you!  I will hang up now and listen to your answers and suggestions!
>> As always, many, many thanks in advance.
>> 
>> 
>> Jack Rarick
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