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    Anyone know or know where I can go to learn how to make an ftp page in my site??

    All help greatly appreciated

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    if you don't put an index page in the folder that you're using to hold the stuff you wan't people to download, IE and Netscape will automatically create a listing of everything in the folder.

    This is not the same as ftp though.
    FTP is a different form of connecting to the internet, it doesn't work with pages. Your isp is probably already running an ftp service for your domain as well as the web service that holds your site.
    You'd then put a url such as:
    ftp://www.mysite.co.uk/thefolderwith...n/thestuff.sit

    on your site and this would tell the users preffered ftp client (possibly their browser, which can also do ftp as well as http) to send an ftp request for this file.

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    ya our server is running a ftp site but to access it you have to use a stand alone app, like fetch, anarchie so on and on but I have seen sites to where you go to there ftp page and you can upload right there providing the whole username /password concept.


    I appreciate your response and will try to use it to my advantage. Thanks

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    if you mean there's ftp acces on the site, then thats a applet that does it for you...

    i've never used it (I just found it for you now...) but you could try this:

    http://www.edlund.org/hacks/drall/


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    I found this page and it is what i am wanting to do/ there has to be some sort of html code i could enter instead of running a program.


    http://www.knightgraphics.com/servic...send_file.html

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    Another Possibility

    if you just have a few things you want people to be able to download, you coould make a Flash movie with a button (or buttons) that have the script

    on(release){
    getURL ("filename.zip");
    }

    Put a zipped version of the file you want people to download on the same level as your movie when you upload it to the server. This works with .sit files, too.

    When the user presses the button, the file download begins.

    Is that useful at all?

    Viridian

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    No, i don't think there is a way of uploading just with html.
    You'll need to run some sort of script or applet to interface with the ftp server.

    (i think...)
    [Edited by SJT on 12-14-2001 at 03:51 PM]

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