Help needed setting FTP link

[Coolvirus]

I need a customer to FTP a couple of files to me every day from his PC. He told me that he's doing it already with another firm and all he does is click on a link from his browser.

Is it possible to setup an FTP upload using a link? What would the link look like?

Thank you in advance

[ronaldb66]

AFAIK you can only upload stuff to a server that is connected to and know to the internet, that is at least an IP-adress. You could have your customer FTP it to a server and download it yourself from there.
Browsers usually have basic FTP capabilities, so maybe that was used; otherwise i wouldn't know, i do think i saw this before.

[Coolvirus]

I'm sorry for not posting for information.

My server is in the DMZ so it is accessible to the internet. All I need is for the user to drop the files on that server and I'll take it from there.

From what I understood after speaking with the customer, the way that he was doing it with the other firm was that the link that he was clicking on contained the IP address of the server he was putting to (FTP put), the login and password.

I've never seen an FTP upload done before with a link. Download yes, but not uploads.

[msimmons]

this works for me:

<a href="ftp://useridhere:passwordhere@webaddress_or_ip_here">click</a>


I tested it with my server and it worked fine. Just create a directory on your server and allow him access only to that.
Hope that helped,
Michael

[msimmons]

LOL!

<a href="ftp://userid_here:the_password_here@webaddress_or_ip_here">click</a>


the first post I had : password_here and it turned it into a razz ;P
Michael

[Coolvirus]

assword huh? lol.

Thanks a lot msimmons.

So the user just drags his files and drops them in the browser. Interesting. I thought that a "browse" dialog box would come up or something like that. But the dragging and dropping works just as well.

Just out of curiosity (since my sysadmin would be doing this for me) how do you allow access to just a particular directory?

[msimmons]

Originally posted by Coolvirus
Just out of curiosity (since my sysadmin would be doing this for me) how do you allow access to just a particular directory?

That would depend on your server. I think (I'm new to the server admin role... as I am the whole comp dept here but titled as programmer) that you right click the directory in the IIS Manager (I am on a Win2K server so that is all I know) and there should be a security setting.

Hope that points you in the right direction,
Michael

[Coolvirus]

We have UNIX servers so I'm sure that it's done differently. That's ok though. Thank you for your help.