>Hey all...
>I'm working with doing ftp-type stuff with sockets and everything was going
>really well up to a point... the point where I tried to send a file from my
>Mac to my server at work.
>
>First I used Fetch and sent a file, then copied the log. I tried to
>duplicate the commands step by step, and it worked until I got to the PORT
>command, and that's where things fall apart.
>
>Sockets make MetaCard EXTREMELY powerful, but it's frustrating to use
>sockets because you end up running all over the Internet looking at RFC's
>and a million little articles written by tons of people and getting very
>confused. Or at least I do. If it hasn't been suggested before, I suggest
>we find a common area and post our successful socket scripts, like the
>e-mail stack that someone had a while back. For example, here's how far I
>got (successfully):
>
>--===================== Logging on to a ftp server
>====================================
>
>on mouseUp
> put "" into field "log"
> --create CRLF character... this is necessary because it tells the server
>you're finished "talking"...
> -- ... sort of like saying "over" on a walkie-talkie...
> put numToChar(13) &numToChar(10)into CRLF
>
> --what server do you want to connect (ftp) to?
> put field "server" & ":21" into thisSocket
>
> --open the socket named "thisSocket"... this is the remote socket
> open socket to thisSocket
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field "log" -- the field "log" maintains a list of your
>conversation
>
>--send your user name to the server
> write "USER" && field "name" & CRLF to socket thisSocket
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field "log"
>
> --send your password to the server
> put "PASS" && "89ok57" & CRLF into thisString -- with "89ok57" being your
>password
> write thisString to socket thisSocket
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field 1
>
> -- get the operating system and serving software from the server
> write "SYST" & CRLF to socket sock
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field 1
>
> -- get the current directory
> write "PWD" & CRLF to socket thisSocket
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field 1
>
> --change directory
> write "CWD testme" & CRLF to socket thisSocket -- with "testme" being the
>directory you want
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field 1
>
> -- get the current directory
> write "PWD" & CRLF to socket thisSocket
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field 1
>
>--and then leave...
> write "QUIT" & CRLF to socket thisSocket
> read from socket thisSocket for 1 line
> put it after field 1
> close socket thisSocket
>end mouseUp
>
>--==========================================================================
>=========
>Obviously this is not a complete script, and it doesn't check to make sure
>the server is following the "conversation"... each message from the server
>starts with a number that indicates what's going on, and you can check those
>numbers for errors... but anyway...
>
>If I can figure out the rest (on sending a file), I will post it here. If
>anyone else has already figured this out, would you consider sharing?
It will be available soon.
>
>:)
>Richard MacLemale
>www.coolclassroom.com
>
>
>
>
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