FTPclient

Updated Release: 1.2 Production (Jul 16, 2008)

Quango — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:01:40 GMT

Release 1.2 includes Upload from stream capability ,and fix for URI encoding in upload/rename et al.

Please log any issues with me

Updated Release: 1.21 Production (Oct 02, 2008)

Quango — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:00:06 GMT

Minor fix to GetCredentials to store the value for re-use, to enable KeepAlive to work correctly.

Released: 1.21 Production (Oct 02, 2008)

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:00:03 GMT

Minor fix to GetCredentials to store the value for re-use, to enable KeepAlive to work correctly.

Closed Issue: KeepAlive not working

Quango — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:52:57 GMT

The KeepAlive option does not work correctly unless the Credentials used when logging into the FTP server are the same. Need to store credentials between commands to re-use them and keep the FTP connection open when KeepAlive is set to True.

Thanks to SchlitzInDerHaus at CodeProject for his help in locating this one.

Source code checked in, #17919

Quango — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:52:56 GMT

Amended GetCredentials method to store credentials between uses

Updated Release: 1.2 Production (Oct 02, 2008)

Quango — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:46:41 GMT

Release 1.2 includes Upload from stream capability ,and fix for URI encoding in upload/rename et al.

Please log any issues with me

Created Issue: KeepAlive not working

Quango — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:45:32 GMT

New Post: Failed uploads with IP address vs. Hostname.

JonBoy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:53:59 GMT

I'm getting failed uploads when I use addresses like 192.168.1.103 or 10.101.0.225 (I am 100% the addresses are correct and verified through other clients).

If I change the address to host names instead, the uploads are fine. Anyone else run into this or have a suggestion?

Thanks!

Got this figured out - was a mistake on my part. Sorry for the junk thread.

New Post: Check Connection to the FTP Server

JonBoy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 11:24:50 GMT

Good suggestion CodeSurfer.

New Post: Enhancement: Add support for appending data to existing files.

JonBoy — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:28:54 GMT

Requesting an enhancement to append data to existing files. This should be possible with WebRequestMethods.Ftp.AppendFile. The new Append method should be overloaded (perhaps with the same params used on the Upload methods for consistency).

Jon-boy

New Post: Check Connection to the FTP Server

codesurfer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 15:21:11 GMT

I have found it useful to check if the credentials will allow you to logon before attempting any action on the server. Here is the additional method which may be usefully included in a later release....

Public Function CheckLogon() As Boolean

Dim ftp As Net.FtpWebRequest = GetRequest(Hostname)
ftp.Method = Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.PrintWorkingDirectory

Try
    'get response but ignore it
    Dim str As String = GetStringResponse(ftp)
Catch ex As WebException
    If ex.Status = WebExceptionStatus.Success Then
        Return True
    Else
        Return False
    End If
Catch ex As Exception
    Throw
End Try

End Function

UPDATED RELEASE: 1.2 Release Candidate

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:16:32 GMT

Release 1.2 includes Upload from stream capability ,and fix for URI encoding in upload/rename et al.

Please log any issues with me

Source code checked in, #15147

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:14:27 GMT

Amended test code with new special chars test

Source code checked in, #15146

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:08:56 GMT

Minor corrections

Source code checked in, #15145

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:05:05 GMT

Amended as per changes to 1.2 to match VB version (encoding etc.)

Source code checked in, #15144

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:04:35 GMT

Amended catch expressions to throw exception rather than handle

Source code checked in, #15143

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:36:36 GMT

Removed test code

Closed Issue: Special characters in URI cause issues

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:35:56 GMT

It has been identified on CodeProject that certain characters e.g. # can cause problems when uploading or renaming, as the characters are not escaped in the URI when passed to FtpWebRequest.

Testing indicated that trying to upload a file with the name "test#1.txt" created an invalid filename on the FTP server.

Closed Issue: Save exception message to a property

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:35:55 GMT

In many of the functions, it would be helpful to save the exception error message. ie in the try catch: LastErrorText=ex.message.
That way, when a function returns false due to an error, i can read the LastErrorText property to give some sort of feeedback to the user as to why it failed.

Closed Issue: FTPfileInfo constructor support for no size

Quango — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 13:35:55 GMT

the constructer of FTPfileInfo is expecting size to be non-blank, but for a directory it is blank hence there is an exception.

does anyone have an elegant fix to this problem? (maybe extend FileInfo to support both files and directories?)
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this fixed my problem:
In the constructor for FTPFileInfo, i made the below change.

If ((m.Groups("size").Value.Trim.Length) = 0) Then
_size = 0
Else
_size = CLng(m.Groups("size").Value)
End If