HELP! - Unable to acquire FTP file list...

Dave Cragg dave.cragg at lacscentre.co.uk
Thu Mar 1 16:59:29 EST 2012


On 1 Mar 2012, at 21:26, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote:

> 
> ]libURLSetFTPListCommand "LIST"
> get libURLftpCommand("LIST","ftp.mydomain.com","myusername at mydomain.com","mypassword")
> answer it
> 
> Implementing the above, I keep getting:
> 
> “425 No Data Connection”

Unfortunately, the LIST command requires a parallel data connection to be set over which the data is returned. This is messy to do.


> Furthermore, I have also tried the following:
> 
> constant FTPHOST = "ftp.mydomain.com"   
> put the urlencode of "myusername at mydomain.com" into FTPUSER
> put the urlencode of "mypassword" into FTPPASS
> 
> libURLSetFTPListCommand "LIST"
> put url "ftp://" & FTPUSER & ":" & FTPPASS & "@" & FTPHOST into myVar
> 
> answer myVar
> 
> But nothing... 

Does it work if you add a "/" after FTPHOST.

e.g. 

constant FTPHOST = "ftp.mydomain.com/"   

Dave



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