[thelist] Simple form based ftp
Burhan Khalid
thelist at meidomus.com
Wed Nov 24 06:58:02 CST 2004
Karen Longstaff wrote:
> I need to be able to ftp a file to a server which is an sql server rather
> than the web server that is hosting the page. I have FTP access to the SQL
> server.
>
> I want the user to be able to use a form to browse to a file (that bit I can
> do!) and then on submit the file should be FTP'd to the sql server. I have:
> the server IP, the directory structure I want to FTP to, the user name and
> the password.
>
> Is there a simple script (I'm not a techie) that I can use to do the FTP?
Since you mentioned ASP, I can only offer this:
This is probably not the best solution, but you could fork a process and
run the built-in ftp command in Windows, the task becomes very simple.
The windows FTP command can take a plain text file with FTP commands as
an argument so that the process is pretty much automated. Say you wanted
to automate the transfer of a file (C:\myfile.txt) to ftp.myserver.com,
where you want to login with my_user and my_secret as your password.
This sequence of commands would do it:
open ftp.myserver.com
my_user
my_pass
lcd C:\
put myfile.txt
quit
If you save this as c:\ftp.txt, then you can run this :
ftp -s:C:\ftp.txt
Maybe this helps?
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