FTP scriptyness Options

[MonkeyFiend]

Firstly would it not be easier to script it so that a bunch of files are packaged - zipped or preferably tarred and then upload the one file then untar it on the remote server??

Something like the following run on "Remote server" => "computer where files are kept" (Dirty FTP connections*)

On server, create a local ghey.zip and fills it from the FTP request.


WebRequest.RegisterPrefix("ftp://", FtpWebRequest.Creator);
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.magik5likesmen.com/ghey.tar.gz");
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();

Stream local = File.Create("ghey.tar.gz");
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int n;
do
{
n = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
local.Write(buffer, 0, n);
}
while (n > 0);
stream.Close();
local.Close();

**then something like.. (I can't remember the syntax )***

gz.UnTarGz("ghey.tar.gz", untarRoot, bNoAbsolute);

Obviously this can be rejigged if you want to run as a script on the "computer where files are kept" > "Remote Server" type direction



*I do it this way so that a remote secure server never accepts inbound FTP connections, it should always initiate outbound connections by script. This means that the script can run with limited permissions e.g. run under a user to reach the outside world and place files in a given limited directory with no permissions outside of that directory. A separate script with permissions to this directory but no permissions to the outside world can then be run to unpack and palce the files where they belong; this is purely limiting security.

[Magik5]

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im currently doing a bit of php with c# because we got this job for ea - deadlines 2 weeks time tho so after that ill be going back to flash i expect

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