ftp'ing out of vfp

[timp4christ]

I have the code to ftp out of my vfp program, but it only works when I can directly login to the ftp site...example.. ftp.vhitransport.com

The problem is that where I need to copy the file to is on folder vahwy ie. ftp.vhitransport.com/vahwy

When I try to logon to ftp.vhitransport.com/vahwy the connection fails, so i need some way to log on to the main ftp site, change the directory to vahwy and then transfer the file....but the code I orginally got was from this site, and I have no idea how to make this happen...the code I got was working through wininet.dll and I don't know enough about how that works to really do anything with it...if anyone can help, i would appreciate it.

Thanks,

Tim

 

[baltman]

We use something like:

    lcScript =  "open ftp.vhitransport.com" + CHR(10) +;
	"ftp" + CHR(10) + ;
	"ftp" + CHR(10)+ ;
	"binary" + CHR(10) + ;
					
	"cd ./vahwy" + CHR(10) + ;
	"lcd " + lcDataFolder + CHR(10) + ;
	"put " + [file1_]+ DTOS(ldDate)+[.csv]+ CHR(10) + ;
	"put " + [file2_]+ DTOS(ldDate)+[.csv]+ CHR(10) + ;
	"put " + [file3_]+ DTOS(ldDate)+[.xls]+ CHR(10) + ;
	"bye"

    STRTOFILE(lcScript,"ftpscript.txt")
    RUN ftp -i -s:ftpscript.txt

 

[tacs]

Hi Tim

Like you have been trying to find a way to easily ftp from VFP. There are lots of postings on this subject in the VFP forums here, but the I think I found the same code as you, posted by Dave Summers and using wininet.

I found this one simple to use .... after spending a while trying to figure it out!

The problem I found was that my own web server, where I was trying to take files from and send them to, wanted // instead of a / from me. You also need to be aware of some web servers being case sensitive.

I don't know if this is your problem, but as soon as I added the extra slashes to my web site address and it's folders I was up and running. I simply passed through the host name, folder and file, user name and password and it was away.

Dave

 

[Elmserv]

I have been doing this for years ! My method is to create a batch file with fcreate etc, then closing it wait a sec then run it.

Rich