FTP download txt files

[kasteel]

Hi

I am using the code below to download a text file called readme.txt from the httpdocs folder using FTP.

How can I download multiple txt files in the folder without knowing what their names would be? Would appreciate any help.

Here is the code I use to download one file:

Imports System
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Data
Imports System.IO

Public Class Form1
    Private Sub SimpleButton1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles SimpleButton1.Click

        Const localFile As String = "C:\test1\Readme.txt"
        Const remoteFile As String = "/httpdocs/readme.txt"
        Const host As String = "ftp://yourlinkhere"
        Const username As String = "yourusernamehere"
        Const password As String = "yourpasswordhere"

        Dim URI As String = host & remoteFile
        Dim ftp As System.Net.FtpWebRequest = _
            CType(FtpWebRequest.Create(URI), FtpWebRequest)

        ftp.Credentials = New _
            System.Net.NetworkCredential(username, password)

        ftp.KeepAlive = False

        ftp.UseBinary = True

        ftp.Method = System.Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.DownloadFile

        Using response As System.Net.FtpWebResponse = _
              CType(ftp.GetResponse, System.Net.FtpWebResponse)
            Using responseStream As IO.Stream = response.GetResponseStream

                Using fs As New IO.FileStream(localFile, IO.FileMode.Create)
                    Dim buffer(2047) As Byte
                    Dim read As Integer = 0
                    Do
                        read = responseStream.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)
                        fs.Write(buffer, 0, read)
                    Loop Until read = 0
                    responseStream.Close()
                    fs.Flush()
                    fs.Close()
                End Using
                responseStream.Close()
            End Using
            response.Close()
        End Using

    End Sub

End Class

 

[Tom]

If its bombing out at the FtpDownload function, you apparently already connected to the ftp directory for the listdirectory function. To download a file, of course you have to specify each of the parameters in the function the same as in my example where i am calling the function.

 

[Tom]

Sorry I was kinda busy today at work today and rushing thru my answers. Did you figure it out or do you still need help?

The FtpDownloadFile function has 6 paramaters to be passed to it.

01) strUrl : the ftp full path to the directory you want. So if your login takes you to a root directory and you have to drill down a few subdirectories, you want to put that whole path in.

02) strFileName : is the ftp file you want to download. If you look at my calling sub (btnDownload) in the loop each itteration of "objFile.ToString" will give the file name.

03) strTargetDirectory : is the directory path you want to download the file too

04) strTargetFileName : is the file name you want to save it as. Unless your changing its name, you can just use objFile.ToString to keep it the same.

05 & 06) Login & password : self explanatory.

If your still having problems, post an example of how your changes. You can alter that loop a bit to add the filenames to a listbox so you can see a list of what is being returned. Just add ListBox1.Items.Add(objFile.ToString) in the loop before the download function.

 

[kasteel]

You are awesome!!

Thanks

I will give it another try today.