ftpwebrequest

How do you change directories using FtpWebRequest (.NET)?

Can someone tell me how to change directories using FtpWebRequest? This seems like it should be an easy thing to do, but I'm not seeing it. EDIT I just want to add...I don't have my heart set on FtpWebRequest. If there's a better (easier) way to do FTP in .NET please let me know. Apparently there's no way to do it using a live con...

Why doesn't FTPWebRequest, or WebRequest in general accept a /../ path?

I am trying to automate some upload/download tasks from an ftp web server. When I connect to the server through client, or through Firefox even, in order to get to my directory, I have to specify a path like this: ftp://ftpserver.com/../AB00000/incoming/files If I try to access this: ftp://ftpserver.com/AB00000/incoming/files The s...

ASP.NET C# upload MemoryStream content via FTPwebRequest issue

This should be pretty straight forward, and uploading works. BUT when I open the uploaded file on the FTP server it shows binary data which is just some weird characters that look like this [][][][], and its the right file size. how do I add attributes or headers that that will say that this file is an XML? public bool ProcessBatc...

Set Port number when using FtpWebRequest in C#

I keep getting a exception when I try to FTP to my Win 2008 Server from C# code using VS2008 as debugger. My test class looks like this: public class FTP { private string ftpServerIP = "192.168.10.35:21"; private string ftpUserID = "Administrator"; private string ftpPassword = "XXXXXXXX"; private string uploadToFolder =...

How to improve the Performance of FtpWebRequest?

I have an application written in .NET 3.5 that uses FTP to upload/download files from a server. The app works fine but there are performance issues: It takes a lot of time to make connection to the FTP server. The FTP server is on a different network and has Windows 2003 Server (IIS FTP). When multiple files are queued for upload, the ...

System.Net.FtpWebRequest GetDateTimestamp example

I'm looking for a short bit of sample code which uses the System.Net.FtpWebRequest namespace to get the timestamp of a specified remote file on an ftp server. I know I need to set the Method property of my request object to WebRequestMethods.Ftp.GetDateTimestamp but I'm not sure how to get the response back into a System.DateTime object....

Godaddy WebPermission Issue on FTPwebrequest

I have created FTPwebRequest to write a file from one of my Windows 2003 share hosting account to one of my Linux hosting account. This is the code, I use to upload the file between servers (domains) Public Sub uploadFileUsingFTP(ByVal CompleteFTPPath As String, ByVal CompleteLocalPath As String, Optional ByVal UName As String = "UserN...

asp.net ajax in Full trust level

Controls such as RadControls, FtpWebRequest requires Full Trust Level. I had to change hosting from Godaddy to SoftSys cause I couldn't run my application properly according to the client's specification. What measures, do i need to take to secure my application on Full Trust level? ...

Powershell FTPWebRequest and EnableSsl = True

I searched this site and found an FTPWebRequest example via Powershell. I put it to use and it works fine. However, when I enable SSL via EnableSsl=$True, all I get is timeouts or a delayed "227 Entering Passive Mode", which breaks the process. As soon as I disable EnableSsl, I can fly right through. Can someone point me in the right dir...

FTPWebRequest Upload files will only upload two files!

Hi I'm using the aynchronous members of the WebRequest to upload files to an IIS ftp server. I can upload two files with success. However BeginGetResponse on the third file never calls my call back routine! Any Ideas welcome? thanks, john ...

C# BinaryReader "stream does not support seek operations"

I am trying to download files from an ftp server using C# and ftpwebrequest. I can get the bytes using BinaryReader, but when I try to read the stream using br.ReadBytes(int), I get an error that BinaryReader does not support seek operations. Does anyone know how best to read the bytes so I can write them to a file? Here's the full m...

Transfer files over FTPS (SSL/TLS) using C#.Net

I'm writing an application that syncs files over an FTP site. Right now it's working by connecting through regular FTP, but now our IT guys want to set this up over a secure FTPS connection. They provided me with a .cr certificate file. If I open the file in notepad I see something like this (but with real keys not foobar obviously). -...

OPTS command on FtpWebRequest/FtpWebResponse

I'm using the FtpWebRequest and FtpWebResponse objects in the System.Net namespace to issue a LIST command. The problem I'm having is that the FTP server I'm connecting to does not have the OPTS command implemented. Is there a way of preventing FtpWebRequest from issuing the OPTS command? ...

.Net FtpWebRequest fails sometimes

I try to list file details using FtpWebRequest but very frequently it fails with a WebException and shows error 530 User not logged in. How is this possible, that it works some of the time using the same credentials? Excerpt from code: reqFTP = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(new Uri(ftpuri)); reqFTP.UseBinary = tr...

FtpWebRequest says Stream is Disposed

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows the answer to why my code casts an exeption when I do the fileStream.Read call, with the message "The stream is disposed" I can list the files in the folder and using my browser to the fileUrl works fine. No proxies is involved. UnifiedFile is just an subclass of VirtualFile which comes from the CMS i...

C# FtpWebRequest with EnableSSL

Hi, I implemented my custom FTP class to work with a hosted server that I'm paying for. I use the FTP for backup, restore and update of my application. I'm now at the moment where I want to enable the ssl to put this in production. I asked my hosting company if they support the ssl protocal and they sad they do. So I modified my met...

Upload file via FTP - Server returned error (550) File is unavailable, cannot find file

Hi, I'm trying to upload a file via FTP from my local computer to an FTP server, which is also on my local computer at the moment. I've got this sub I'm calling: Public Sub UploadFTPFile(ByVal ftpservername, ByVal fullfilepath, ByVal filename, ByVal username, ByVal password) Dim clsRequest As System.Net.FtpWebRequest = _ Di...

550 Error When I try to get the size of a file on an FTP

I'm trying to use an FtpWebRequest to get the size of a file on a company FTP. Yet whenever I try to get the response an exception is thrown. See the error details in the catch block in the code below. string uri = "ftp://ftp.domain.com/folder/folder/file.xxx"; FtpWebRequest sizeReq = (FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(uri); sizeReq.Metho...

Error trying to connect to a FTP with FtpWebRequest and Proxy

im getting this error "Cannot handle redirect from http/https protocols to other dissimilar ones" any help please ? this is a part of my code, i try with and without proxy, when without proxy it says that i need one and when i set the proxy (in app.config or by code says the error i said). reqFTP = (FtpWebRequest)FtpWebRequest.Create(n...

Downloading multiple files from FTP server

Hi, I've multiple files on a ftp server.I do not know the names of these files except that they are all. xml files. How do I programmatically download these files using .Net's FtpWebRequest? Thanks. ...