FTP import in pure code? 1

[DanEvansJr]

I have an asp app that I'm writing that needs to perform some simple tasks. I'm basically trying to connect to our BULL mainframe via FTP and save a file in a location on the webserver. That SOUNDS simple enough, but everything that I've seen so far is pointing me to controls or pay-products. I'm thinking that's a bit of overkill. I need actual asp code. Not controls, or non-asp scripting languages.

Can anyone assist? In a desktop app, this is a few lines of code. This can't be that hard and I know I'm just missing something. I'm kinda new to the web world, so feel free to dumb it down for me.

Thanks in advance to anyone that can point me in the right direction.

 

[jbenson001]

Is this an asp web site or an ASP.NET web site?

 

[DanEvansJr]

OOops. Sorry. It's VS2008 / ASP.Net.

 

[DanEvansJr]

I'm almost there! I found some code that apparently does what I need it to do, but . . . the file that I'm getting from the BULL location is coming over BINARY, and I need it as ASCII.

At this point I'm basically trying to show the returned results on a label. It works, but . . . Here's what I've got so far:


using System.Net;

//
FtpWebRequest request = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create("ftp://<ipaddress>/testfile");
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential("<user>", "<pass>");
FtpWebResponse response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
Stream responseStream = response.GetResponseStream();
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(responseStream);

this.lblTestText.Text = reader.ReadToEnd();

reader.Close();
response.Close();
//


This is what I should be getting on the text for my lblTestText:
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01 02 03 04
01 02 03 04
01 02 03 04
01 02 03 04
01 02 03 04
01 02 03 04
01 02 03 04


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[ca8msm]

Have a look at the HttpResponse.BinaryWrite method.

Mark,

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[DanEvansJr]

FOUND IT!

Turns out I need to explicitly tell the FtpWebRequest object (in my case, named 'request') to not use binary. The line of code is this:

request.UseBinary = false;
(this would come after the" request.Credentials" line

Works like it should!