FTP scriptyness Options

[MonkeyFiend]

Firstly would it not be easier to script it so that a bunch of files are packaged - zipped or preferably tarred and then upload the one file then untar it on the remote server??

Something like the following run on "Remote server" => "computer where files are kept" (Dirty FTP connections*)

On server, create a local ghey.zip and fills it from the FTP request.


WebRequest.RegisterPrefix("ftp://", FtpWebRequest.Creator);
WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create("ftp://ftp.magik5likesmen.com/ghey.tar.gz");
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
Stream stream = response.GetResponseStream();

Stream local = File.Create("ghey.tar.gz");
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int n;
do
{
n = stream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
local.Write(buffer, 0, n);
}
while (n > 0);
stream.Close();
local.Close();

**then something like.. (I can't remember the syntax )***

gz.UnTarGz("ghey.tar.gz", untarRoot, bNoAbsolute);

Obviously this can be rejigged if you want to run as a script on the "computer where files are kept" > "Remote Server" type direction



*I do it this way so that a remote secure server never accepts inbound FTP connections, it should always initiate outbound connections by script. This means that the script can run with limited permissions e.g. run under a user to reach the outside world and place files in a given limited directory with no permissions outside of that directory. A separate script with permissions to this directory but no permissions to the outside world can then be run to unpack and palce the files where they belong; this is purely limiting security.

[MonkeyFiend]

I did A-level IT - the teacher (now sacked) was an old physics teacher that my school moved across in the 70's to teach computers, since physics/maths were closest to IT at the time.

He decided to split the sets based on score of a big IT test, but rather than taking the top 20 into set 1 etc., he set a hard limit e.g. Top set were people that scored over 90%.

This meant my A-level class consisted of 3 people. The only lesson he taught in 2 years was 'how binary works' The rest of the time he went into the staff room and never reappeared.

For me IT/IS and computer science were all basically the same thing.

I completed my generic spradsheets/relational database coursework and then started learning VB - probably out of boredom.

I also learnt a lot about security during this time - there were more computer rooms than computer staff, so certain people were selected as prefects to look after these rooms. My room was H6 in hawkins house - there had been a sudden upsurge in (forbidden) gaming that I was supposed to prohibit (Duke Nukem!)

During this 2 year period, the head of IT never figured it was me installing these games. It was a good situation - he kept buying security and snooping software and showing me how it worked, thereby enabling me to bypass it

I suspect I learnt more through this than I would have in a traditional taught class