file transfer across the internet?

[Lim Wing Hoe]

Hello all,

I understand how to copy a file from one directory to another directory,
"locally", in my own computer.

Now, I want to create a small application where I can copy a file to another
computer, let's say, I'm using a laptop and want to copy it to a webserver.
I am confused on how to do that. How can I use the codes to do the file copy
task? And how can I copy it in binary format instead of ascii?

I hope someone can lighten me up here. Perhaps some diagrams or sample
codes.

Thanks.


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Best Regards,
Wing Hoe
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Email1: winghoe@yahoo.com
Email2: winghoe@hotmail.com
ICQ no: 2213281
www: http://pwp.maxis.net.my/winghoe
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[Paul Clapham]

The Internet method for copying a file from one system to another is called
FTP. It handles both text and binary files.

Lim Wing Hoe <winghoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:397aa9e9@news.devx.com...
> Hello all,
>
> I understand how to copy a file from one directory to another directory,
> "locally", in my own computer.
>
> Now, I want to create a small application where I can copy a file to
another
> computer, let's say, I'm using a laptop and want to copy it to a
webserver.
> I am confused on how to do that. How can I use the codes to do the file
copy
> task? And how can I copy it in binary format instead of ascii?
>
> I hope someone can lighten me up here. Perhaps some diagrams or sample
> codes.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Wing Hoe
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Email1: winghoe@yahoo.com
> Email2: winghoe@hotmail.com
> ICQ no: 2213281
> www: http://pwp.maxis.net.my/winghoe
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>
>

[Lim Wing Hoe]

Hello Paul,

Yeah, I know that. But I don't know how to use "THE" FTP protocol to do it.
If I want to do that, I will have to create an FTP server as well. That is
if I know how the commands for both the server and the client. I can find
codes(hopefully, somewhere out there) that for an FTP client, but not codes
on an FTP server.

How about reading the entire file into an OutputStream and send it over to
the client? Is that possible? What if the file that it is transferring is
too big, say 30MB?

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Best Regards,
Wing Hoe
---------------------------------------------------------------
Email1: winghoe@yahoo.com
Email2: winghoe@hotmail.com
ICQ no: 2213281
www: http://pwp.maxis.net.my/winghoe
---------------------------------------------------------------


Paul Clapham <pclapham@core-mark.com> wrote in message
news:397c5a7d@news.devx.com...
> The Internet method for copying a file from one system to another is
called
> FTP. It handles both text and binary files.

[Paul Clapham]

Whatever you do, you will have to have something running on both machines to
transfer the file. You have a build-or-buy decision to make. You say you
would have to create an FTP server -- it would be easier and faster to buy
one. (It doesn't have to be written in Java, FTP is a standard protocol.)
And there is Java code available for FTP clients.

If you don't want to use FTP, then you have to have something else running
on your "server" system that is expecting somebody to call in and send or
receive files. You could write a sockets application to do that too.

Lim Wing Hoe <winghoe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:397c81c5@news.devx.com...
> Hello Paul,
>
> Yeah, I know that. But I don't know how to use "THE" FTP protocol to do
it.
> If I want to do that, I will have to create an FTP server as well. That is
> if I know how the commands for both the server and the client. I can find
> codes(hopefully, somewhere out there) that for an FTP client, but not
codes
> on an FTP server.
>
> How about reading the entire file into an OutputStream and send it over to
> the client? Is that possible? What if the file that it is transferring is
> too big, say 30MB?
>
> --
>
>
>
> Best Regards,
> Wing Hoe
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> Email1: winghoe@yahoo.com
> Email2: winghoe@hotmail.com
> ICQ no: 2213281
> www: http://pwp.maxis.net.my/winghoe
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
> Paul Clapham <pclapham@core-mark.com> wrote in message
> news:397c5a7d@news.devx.com...
> > The Internet method for copying a file from one system to another is
> called
> > FTP. It handles both text and binary files.
>
>
>