Good forum for ftpWebResponse?

[Jeremy]

I'm finding very limited number of places where there is a dialog on
ftpWebResponse. Can anyone suggest a place to try?

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I'm finding very limited number of places where there is a dialog on
ftpWebResponse. Can anyone suggest a place to try?

Why not here or in the .framework group ?

Arne

 

[Jeremy]

Why not here or in the .framework group ?

Arne

Not getting responses here. dotnet.framework doesn't have much activity,
and none of the few ftp posts have been responded to.

Jeremy

 

[Family Tree Mike]

It wasn't clear to me from your previous post how you were getting a valid
directory on the site prior to your function call. The error code returned,
as I understand it, means you don't have permissions.

Does the error occur every other time, or on particular paths?

 

[Jeremy]

It wasn't clear to me from your previous post how you were getting a valid
directory on the site prior to your function call. The error code
returned,
as I understand it, means you don't have permissions.

Does the error occur every other time, or on particular paths?

The error occurs every-other time. The path is contained in an object
property, and since you raise the question, I examined it in the debugger.
The path is correct, and the credentials are correct -- the same ones that
work every-other time

The connection does eventually succeed. It's as if the first call succeeds,
the second attempt fails, but "fixes" the connection somehow, and then the
3rd attempt succeeds.

 

[Jeremy]

I added the following loop code, and it seems to sidestep the problem. The
getResponse() throws an exception, it's caught, and I try again, succeeding.

bool connected=false;
....
while ((!connected) & (i<2))
{
FtpWebRequest request =
(FtpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(ftpPath);
request.UsePassive = false;
request.Method = WebRequestMethods.Ftp.ListDirectory;
request.Credentials = new NetworkCredential(ftpUserID,
ftpPassword);

try
{
response = (FtpWebResponse)request.GetResponse();
connected = true;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
exMsg = ex.Message;
i += 1;
request.Abort();
}
}

 

[Family Tree Mike]

It sounds like a tempermental ftp server. Must be a government site...

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

I'm finding very limited number of places where there is a dialog on
ftpWebResponse. Can anyone suggest a place to try?

If you post a compilable piece of code that demonstrates the
problem with a FTP server that is public available, then I am
pretty sure that you will get a solution/workaround.

Arne