Frustration: put after URL...

[Bruce A. Pokras]

>On 20 Feb 2006, at 13:20, Thomas McCarthy wrote:
>
>>
>>Testing out my PayPal thing and running into a few walls:
>>
>>My brand new Windows XP (home edition) is not allowing my stack to 
>>put some text into my remote file server.
>>
>>  put  cr & theText after URL 
>>"ftp://username:mypass@ftp.mysite.com/revproject/reg/key_log.txt"
>>
>>This has worked on every other computer, even on the same network.. 
>>Could there be some XP setting I need to...uhm, set?
>
>First, I didn't even know you could use "put .... after url" with an 
>ftp URL. But sure enough, it works.
>
>(By the way, the engine makes two calls to the url to do this. First 
>it retrieves the entire url from the server, then writes back the 
>retrieved data with the new data appended. So this may not offer the 
>efficiency you expected.)
>
>That said, I just tested this on 2.7 on Win XP, and it works fine here.
>
>Do you get any error messages?
>
>Cheers
>Dave
>

Tom,

There are issues with privleges when using Win XP.  Lower level 
privleges will block certain calls. Are you trying this while logged 
in with admin privleges?

Regards,

Bruce Pokras
sunspot at blazingdawn.com
Blazing Dawn Software
www.blazingdawn.com