Re: Any Gotchas on using FTPAPI on PubNet?

[Mike Wills <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I was just asking hoping that someone has worked with it before.

My guess is that they wrote a custom FTP server that is compatible
only to the point where an FTP client can connect to it. There is a
double login and appears to only support a couple commands. Here is
the documentation they provide: http://murl.me/1g2. Also the error
codes: http://murl.me/1g3. I'll just have to wait and see if I can get
some test information so I can play.

--
Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me



On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Scott Klement <sk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm not familiar with PubNet, I'm only familiar with the FTP protocol.
> Technically, there's no such thing in the FTP protocol as a 'get'
> command. When you type 'get' into an FTP client, the client understands
> that you want to retrieve a file.  From your command line, it extracts
> the "local file name" (in your example, 850file.txt) and uses that to
> open a file on it's end.  Then it sends the RETR command to the server,
> followed by the parameter you specified as the remote path name. (* in
> your example)
>
> Here's a description from RFC 959 (the standard that governs FTP) for
> the RETR command:
>
> RETRIEVE (RETR)
> This command causes the server-DTP to transfer a copy of the
> file, specified in the pathname, to the server- or user-DTP
> at the other end of the data connection.  The status and
> contents of the file at the server site shall be unaffected.
>
> So according to RFC 959, the parameter to the 'GET' command is a path
> name to the file to retrieve on from the server.  Not a wild card!  And
> only a single file can be returned.  Furthermore, the files on the
> server side are never modified/changed by a GET request.
>
> Not sure if that really helps you at all...   honestly, your question
> isn't really for us, but is for the people at PubNet.  You want to know
> what their software will do with the * character you sent -- and I can't
> help you with that, I didn't write their software.
>
>
> On 7/19/2011 11:15 PM, Mike Wills wrote:
>> I am starting work on automatically downloading EDI documents from
>> PubNet via FTP.
>>
>> Their sample shows doing a "get * 850file.txt" does that join all
>> documents that are sent into one document for parsing? That is what I
>> am understanding it does from the documentation.
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