[How Do I:] Use the FtpWebRequest Class to Create an FTP Connection to a FTP Server

Very helpful

this is really very helpful, thanks

Very helpful. But if you can shorten these videos by having the <asp:Controls pre added to the page or by dragging and dropping them from the Toolbox instead of handcoding... would save some time. Over all it is awesome!

as usual thanks chris

This video is excellent.

Now I will have to find out how to add an entire folder instead of a single file or files. Does anyone know how to add an entire folder instead of a single file or is it even possible?

chris thanks for your post,

can u suggest me ...how to download a folder from a ftp server? is this possible in web application?

is der any other techniques to handle this??

its really urgent for me....

Thanks for the nice one.We will appreciate if you elaborate more.Thanks again.

Thanks,this was great

thanks, this was helpful

Never used ASP.NET so excuse the stupid question please.

Doesn't this example upload a file from the webserver to an FTP server?

I mean, what actually executes in the browser? I thought only javascript can run, but you're creating standard .NET WebRequest objects etc.

If I'm blind to the obvious please explain gently. After all, if I can't understand it there must be others too!

Thanks

Hey georgemitchell,

I believe I can answer this question for you.

The asp:fileupload control, which outputs an <input type="file"> type control on the web page, handles the uploading of the file from the client machine to the web server.

When you submit the webform, it uploads the file to the web server, which appears as a byte array to ASP.net.

Most of what executes in the browser is already abstracted in the <input type="file"> control. No javascript is necessary (indeed, because of security, javascript usually can't do much with the file upload control at all), and the browser itself already handles the part of opening a file browser on the client when the browse button is pressed. It also handles wrapping the file up into the information that gets sent to the server when the form is submitted (note: I believe the method is required to be "post" for this, although I've never tried it another way).

In this example, that byte information is being put into a filestream and sent directly to the ftp server from the web server. (uploadFile control)

So, in answer to the question, yes, the example uploads the file from the web server to the ftp server but that is only after the client browser already uploaded the file to the web server.

Hope this helps

Excellent video!  Very much appreciated.

Useful, thanks.

This example was really helpful. Thanks Chris for that. It would be really helpful if any one can help me out with navigating and downloading from ftp using the same ftpwebrequest. Thanks in advance!!

This video only works for me when I debug and test on the local machine. The local machine is also the ftp server. It does not actually work when I deploy and use from a remote machine. No errors are generated but it just doesn't transfer the files over