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Posted: **Sun Nov 18, 2012 4:35 am**

Hi all -

The following code is working fine on iOS, but not the Android simulator. I'd be grateful for any advice for how to make it work.

Peace

Joel

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   put "http://www.projectiveart.com/PAapp/count/count.txt" into countURL
   put URL countURL into tTempCount
   put tTempCount into tNumberOfFiles
   put tNumberOfFiles+1 into tNumberOfFiles
      
   constant FTPHOST = "www.projectiveart.com"
   constant FTPUSER = "{my user name}"
   constant FTPPASS = "{my password}"   
   put tNumberOfFiles into URL "binFile:/count.txt"
   put tNumberOfFiles into url ("ftp://" & FTPUSER & ":" & FTPPASS & "@" & FTPHOST&"/PAapp/count/count.txt")

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2012 3:22 pm**

hi Joel,

Which part doesn't work?

Kind regards,

Mark

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2012 4:26 pm**

joel.epsteinBUS31vi wrote:

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   put "http://www.projectiveart.com/PAapp/count/count.txt" into countURL
   put URL countURL into tTempCount
   put tTempCount into tNumberOfFiles
   put tNumberOfFiles+1 into tNumberOfFiles
      
   constant FTPHOST = "www.projectiveart.com"
   constant FTPUSER = "{my user name}"
   constant FTPPASS = "{my password}"   
   put tNumberOfFiles into URL "binFile:/count.txt"
   put tNumberOfFiles into url ("ftp://" & FTPUSER & ":" & FTPPASS & "@" & FTPHOST&"/PAapp/count/count.txt")

If you check "the result" after the last statement, I'd guess that you'll find an error noting the URL is invalid.

The URL being used contains a service specifier of "http", but then you prepend that with a service specifier of "ftp", giving you:

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ftp://user:password@http://www.projectiveart.com/PAapp/count/count.txt"

If you remove the service specifier from the URL, you'd have:

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ftp://user:password@www.projectiveart.com/PAapp/count/count.txt"

...which is probably what you'll need.

Note that some servers are set up to use "www.*" only for HTTP access, so you may need:

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ftp://user:password@projectiveart.com/PAapp/count/count.txt"

Check the value of "the result" after that call for guidance; a good practice anyway, since all sorts of errors can occur during any client-server transaction, and checking "the result" will give you the opportunity to handle those gracefully.

Posted: **Fri Nov 23, 2012 6:10 pm**

Hi,

If I run this script, I get

ftp://{my user name}:{my password}@www.projectiveart.com/PAapp/count/count.txt

which doesn't include "http". Some servers need ftp instead of www and sometimes the correct form is ftp.projectiveart.com/www/PAapp/count/count.txt

Mark

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