What code would you use to send data over the internet?

user#606 · Post by **user#606** » Sun May 03, 2009 10:17 am

A simple senario would be to send the contents of a field from one unknown computer to the hard drive of a single known computer. Each file sent would have a unique file name.
Any ideas?

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Sun May 03, 2009 3:39 pm

If the remote known computer is running an FTP server, it can be as simple as

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put field "Content" into URL "ftp://user:password@example.com/uniquefilename.txt"

However, if there is no FTP server running, things will be a bit more complicated, as you'll have to write the code for a server application to run on that remote known computer.

Jan Schenkel.

user#606 · Post by **user#606** » Sun May 03, 2009 4:54 pm

Thank you, that piece of code looks clear enough. However, I dont know what an ftp server is. I presume a normal PC connected to the internet is http. So what do we need to do the make it ftp?

Janschenkel · Post by **Janschenkel** » Mon May 04, 2009 5:44 am

If the computer is a Windows server that has MS Internet Information Services (IIS) installed, it's as simple as ticking a box to activate the FTP server. However, there's a license cost involved, which you may want to avoid - in such case, FileZilla Server may be a good free/opensource alternative.

Jan Schenkel.

sashu100 · Post by **sashu100** » Mon May 25, 2009 3:56 pm

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