FTP listing using "libURLftpCommand"

Josh Mellicker josh at dvcreators.net
Tue Jan 19 15:26:03 EST 2010


Stephen,

You might find this post (and the demo stack) helpful:

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2007-August/102401.html

Cheers

Josh

On Jan 18, 2010, at 3:37 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

> I'd like to use the LIST command and get a decent directory listing using
> the FTP library. Yes I know about parsing a HTML listing of a directory and
> it really is incomplete (like year information).
> 
> Currently only some of the libURL ftp commands work with the ON-REV ftp
> setup, which  a piece of Open Source called "Pure-FTPd -
> http://pureftpd.org/"
> 
> HELP    returns {   214 Pure-FTPd - http://pureftpd.org/   }
> LIST "/"     returns   {  425 No data connection   }
> PWD     returns  {   "/"    }
> SYST    returns  {   215 UNIX Type: L8  }
> 
> 
> 
> Has anyone used LIBURL successfully trying to gain control of the other FTP
> commands, especially LIST?
> 
> here's the simple code:
> 
> 
> on mouseup
> 
>      get returnAffectedFieldName()
> 
>      put it into tObject
> 
>      put "LIST"  into ftpCommandLine
> 
>      libURLSetFTPListCommand "LIST"
> 
>      get  libURLftpCommand(ftpCommandLine,kFTPAdr,kLogin,kPasw)
> 
>      put it into fld tObject
> 
> end mouseup
> 
> 
> We really need more examples in the docs.  Or is this broken? Help, please,
> Dave Cragg.
> 
> 
> -------------------------
> Stephen Barncard
> San Francisco
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