Re: ftp_get local file question

["Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sender: "Richard B Baird" <rbaird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Scott,

I don't know how you can know before hand either.  I was hoping you could
help in that regards...

I don't know how other ftp clients do it.  maybe they create a temporary
file and rename it after recieving.   all i know is that it works,
regardless of the client.

I'll try a few things and step through the api's in debub as it's happening
and see what i can come up with.

rick

-----original message---------
Rick,

I don't see how I could possibly know what the name of the file is
supposed to be on the local side of the connection.   I'm not quite clear
on what it is that I'm doing differently than IBM is.

The way FTP works is you send 'RETR <filename>' to tell the server which
file you want to RETRieve.  It then opens up a data connection, and sends
you the data that's in that file.   It does not send you a filename to
use, at least not in RFC 959.

Maybe you could try to figure out the correct solution, then e-mail
me a patch, so others could benefit from it?

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