Thanks for the info, Justin! I'll work on that and try to make it work. Hopefully this will work...I hate to think that I might have to download the data manually every day!
Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: Justin D. Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2008 9:49 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: How to access files on an ftp url that doesn't allow direct ftp > access? > > > What I have to do is click on a link in my email, > > which takes to to an web page that uses an ftp url > > (ftp://datalink.interealty.com/....) > > MLXchange certainly allow direct access to their FTP server. I wrote a > routine that downloads IDX feeds daily and it's fully automated. I can't > send you the full code (you know, the whole copyright and work for hire > stuff) since it's owned by the client, but here are the pertinent parts (not > optimized since this is just a small chunk of a vast empire of code; watch > for line breaks)... > > <cfscript> > // Set our variables. > variables.ftp_server = "datalink.interealty.com"; > variables.ftp_username = "anonymous"; > variables.ftp_password = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > variables.ftp_folder = "/DataLinkOutput/yourPathHere/"; > </cfscript> > > <!--- Get a file list from the server. ---> > <cfftp action="open" connection="datalink" server="#variables.ftp_server#" > username="#variables.ftp_username#" password="#variables.ftp_password#" > stoponerror="yes"> > <cfftp action="listdir" connection="datalink" name="remoteFiles" > directory="#variables.ftp_folder#" stoponerror="yes"> > <cfftp action="close" connection="datalink"> > > > At this point you'll have a remoteFiles query which you can loop through to > either download the individual files with CFFTP, or, in our case, generate > an FTP script and pass it to a command-line FTP utility to handle the actual > file transfers (I found that to be more stable over time with the larger > files). > > Once downloaded, unzip, import and enjoy. For anyone else interested in the > trials and tribulations of the MLS system we are talking about, I wrote a > short novel about it in my blog. > > > -- > Justin Scott, http://www.tlson.com/ > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312057 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
