A while back I provided an open-source project for doing FTP uploads with progress. I am now adding a project that does FTP downloads with progress. These projects provide a socket level implementation of the FTP protocol. They perform PASV mode transfers for firewall friendliness, and all transfers are done in BINARY mode.
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The downloader uses the FTP library to retrieve and parse the file listing. This functionality is very well implemented and I decided not to reinvent the wheel. You can hard code the file to download, but you must know its size in order to display progress. Therefore, I recommend you get the file listing even for a hard coded file, that way you can show correct progress even if you update the content of the file.
I am considering creating an open-source, full-featured, FTP client in Basic4PPC. If you would be interested in this project, please let me know.
Download FTP Uploader:
Download FTP Downloader:
ftp_progress_download_v1.0.zip
Proposed Features for the Basic4PPC FTP client:
I am basically planning to reproduce the functionality found in my REALbasic open-source FTP client.
Ability to download and upload files with progress
Ability to traverse the directory structure
View and change UNIX folder permissions (CHMOD)
Ability to rename and / or move files and folders
Ability to delete remote files
Any requests???
