Re: Trying To Upload To FTP Using Fetch From Filemaker
Re: Trying To Upload To FTP Using Fetch From Filemaker
- Subject: Re: Trying To Upload To FTP Using Fetch From Filemaker
- From: Doug McNutt <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:08:05 -0600
At 12:23 +1000 4/12/07, Tim Mansour wrote:
>I've had quite a few people respond asking me for examples of using curl to upload from FileMaker ... so I've posted a small sample .fp7 database to:
><http://www.neologica.com.au/outbox/curling1.zip>
<ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/Progress/tView.text>
is the readme for a couple of scripts I have been using to make curl work in a way that will display its progress bar and possible error messages. If you get involved with curl via AppleScript you might find them useful. The scripts are of the shell variety. AppleScript interfacing to them is via the do script command to Terminal.app. Passwords are handled, with less than perfect security, using the "standard" UNIX .netrc file in your home directory.
<ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/Progress/tViewInit>
<ftp://ftp.macnauchtan.com/Software/Progress/tViewCmd>
Are the scripts themselves.
If you are really doing a lot of uploading to a hosted web site be sure to investigate ssh and its cousins sftp and scp which use encrypted channels and security certificates that you establish with the web hosting machine. Once you establish an identity and set up the ssh agent it's a simple single line command - a do shell script - to upload anything you want with no exposed username or password,
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Applescript syntax is like English spelling:
Roughly, though not thoroughly, thought through.
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