Ftp - Getting a file

Andycal · Post by **Andycal** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 1:43 pm

Having owned RunRev for over a year, I'm finally getting chance to play with it. In particular I'd like to write something that will download a specific file from a server using FTP - can anyone point me to a resource, document or example that shows how this can be done?

Klaus · Post by **Klaus** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 2:16 pm

Hi Andycal,

check the docs for "load" and "FTP" and "libURLDownloadToFile" as a start.

Regards

Klaus

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:22 pm

In addition to Klaus' suggestions, check out the 'URL' keyword.
Basically, it can be as easy as:

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on mouseUp
  ask file "Save as:"
  if it is empty then exit mouseUp
  put "binfile:" & it into tLocalPath
  put "ftp://user:password@example.net/dir/file.ext" into tRemotePath
  put URL tRemotePath into URL tLocalPath
end mouseUp

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Andycal · Post by **Andycal** » Fri Mar 30, 2007 8:09 am

Thanks for these guys, I'm finally starting to understand RunRev!

Andycal · Post by **Andycal** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 8:59 am

Me again...

I've created a stack that now asks for the URL, username and password of the server. The filename, for now, is fixed. The code I have so far is this:

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on mouseUp 
  put "" into field "lblResult"
  if field "lblFile" is empty then exit mouseUp
  put "binfile:" & field "lblFile" into tLocalPath
  put "ftp://" & field "usernameField" & ":" & field "passwordField" & "@" & field "ftpField" & "/database.sql" into tRemotePath 
  put URL tRemotePath into URL tLocalPath 
  put the result into field "lblResult"
end mouseUp

I'm putting in nonsense data for the ftp details to force it to fail, however I'm not getting any error in the 'result' field.

Am I doing something stupid?