Sending an FTP command from one web server to another?

[Tim Selander]

Richard,

Have never written a CGI in my life but you got me thinking; a 
quick Google found me a php script to "print" a folder listing.

So now my .lc script on my on-rev serve puts the url of the .php 
page on the server with the mp3s into a variable -- which gives 
me the list of file names I was trying to get via ftp. Works slick.

Thanks!

Tim Selander
Tokyo, Japan

On 2017.07.19, 2:16, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
> Tim Selander wrote:
>
>  > My company gave up on hosting our email and website at on-rev.com
>  > back when they were having lots of reliability problems. We're
> using
>  > a host in Japan; no LC server installed, nor is it installable.
>  >
>  > I still have our Founder's account on on-rev.com, and use
> quite a few
>  > .lc scripts, calling them from iframes in web pages hosted on
> the new
>  > host.
>  >
>  > Our radio programs' mp3 files are stored on the new host. I
> want one
>  > of my scripts on on-rev.com to get the directory listing of
> the mp3
>  > files on the new host.
>
> FTP is probably not the best solution for this, for reasons too
> numerable to list this morning.
>
> But for the task as described, other simpler, more efficient, and
> more secure alternatives exist:
>
> Can you run a CGI on the server holding the MP3 files to obtain
> that list?
>
> Or, if they're within you're web root, can you use Apache's
> directory listing?
>