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]

yeh good idea actually, never thought of packaging up

had a quick check and php (yes php not asp ) supports zips over tars so ill use them instead.

basically theres a php script that executes after each upload to enter each file into a mysql db ive created so ill get php to do the unzipping as well =]

cheers for the help =]

[Magik5]

nice idea on the security thing as well, but the only people using this will be staff uploading to our server so security shouldn't really be an issue.

i had a little dig around google as it seems c# only supports zipping one file at a time, where as i need to zip (sometimes multiple folders) containing multiple files into one zip.

the ftp app works just fine as is, albeit a few annoying 550's every so often, and ive got the rest of the php stuff to be getting on with so if theres a quick simple solution for this then great, if not its not really an issue =]

oh one more thing - on the first connection it makes, the app seems to hang until connection is made, short of going down the threading route, do you no of a quick fix for this?

cheers

[MonkeyFiend]

Code that I routinely steal err.. I mean utilise for zipping in #:

http://www.vwd-cms.com/Forum/Forums.aspx?topic=18

App hanging... ahh the old blocking problem... good old 'asynchronous sockets' to the rescue - basically you should be able to handle GUI and networking in 1 thread

Quickly googled: http://tinyurl.com/4jyfyt

[Magik5]

cheers for the links,

will look into the sockets thing if i have time near the end of the deadline as itll take me awhile to get my head round.

the zip script seems quite simple, yet kind of a hack when microsoft could have made it so much easier...

ta

[Magik6]

Total jiberish

[MonkeyFiend]

Well thats how I feel when I see a thread about motorbikes

[fido77]

i don't understand most of that!!! i must need more classes!!! of course i haven't done anything with c# yet.

[Magik5]

before i started this i was like ZOHNOES! my first app in c#!

but then 475 lines later i feel ive done a good job =]

but then again having "jnr developer"as my job title gets me off the hook when i end up googling everything i dont know =]

pretty comfortable with programming now though, as in syntax, writing custom classes etc

i prefer as3 though, just not the authoring environment as the available code hinting is shite

[Magik5]

but i still dont like regular expressions :s

[fido77]

i'm startin to get it down. writin small programs is fairly simple to me, but i have trouble with the bigger ones. its mainly the paper work the teacher makes us do that slows me down. i figure by the time i write all the IPO charts and crap, i could have already wrote the dam program!!!

[MonkeyFiend]

[Warning: bad c# regex joke follows]


What regular expression can be found in December?








Answer: [^L]

[fido77]

i can't figure it out! whats the answer? lol.

[Magik5]

any character not equal to L... eh

[MonkeyFiend]

Sorry... I'll get my coat

[Magik5]

to be fair i did laugh

for a few seconds

[fido77]

i had myself a laugh too!

[Lawpf2001]

GCSE IT = name sum input devices, make a stupid database using acess for no good reason

Law
x

[Magik5]

i had to do that for alevels

the first time i ever saw a line of code was my first year of uni - 2 years ago lol

and that was java

oh and ive now added the starters of my image gallery to my website, found here: http://www.dancotton.co.uk/Gallery

[Magik6]

IT is bullshit, its more about how programs can be used etc rather than learning the how a computer processes data etc. I decided to drop IT after GCSE and take computer science instead, was much better. Although neither compares to the super cool subject of Geology!!!