Ftp

Hi everyone,

Currently i am trying to connect to a site using ftp using the below method to upload a file

Code:

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URL url = new URL("ftp://user01:pass1234@ftp.foo.com/README.txt;type=i");
URLConnection urlc = url.openConnection();
OutputStream os = urlc.getOutputStream(); // To upload

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Now my question is how from java can i create or delete a directory as well as create or delete a file using ftp?

Is there also a way i can just connect to a ftp site say ftp.foo.com without specifying the file name so that i can connect to the ftp site first, create a file first then go to that file?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thank You

Yours Sincerely

Richard West

Currently I'm using Jakarta Commons Net library, which includes FTP package . It supports quite full functions to write a FTP program, even create, delete file or dir...better than Sun's implementation. You should check out here :
http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/net/ --> for download
and options:
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/j...tp.html?page=1

You'll need to write protocol for handling FTP and understand the commands the protocol uses. I *think* its similar to using a Telnet protocol, but I'm not positive. You're probably much better off using a 3rd party package.

If you really want to write your own protocol handler, read through this:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc959/