FTP Questions

Warren Kuhl warrenkuhl at gmail.com
Wed Oct 28 12:33:47 EDT 2009


Richard,

Thanks for the response.  I have noticed that the put url seems to work very
well.  Just wanted to see if I was missing something by using this command.

Appreciate your help!
Warren

On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:29 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:

>  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!
>
> --
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>  Developer of WebMerge: Publish any database on any Web site
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