macOS Interface Builder Question?

[menziep]

How can i set up my application to read and write ftp files, like you can a view site in WebView

 

[robbieduncan]

You can't do this in IB. You need to write an FTP client.

 

[menziep]

You can't do this in IB. You need to write an FTP client.

Thanks, is there anywhere i can get the code, for a simple ftp client.

 

[robbieduncan]

I wrote my own FTP client code at one point. It's horrible. I'd do a Google search and see if anyones written any open source FTP objects.

 

[MongoTheGeek]

CURL is good. Released under the LGPL so you can use it in commercial products without opening the entire source. Its stable and powerful. I seem to remember seeing a cocoa wrapper for it somewhere. Maybe source forge.

 

[caveman_uk]

There 's an open source third party bit of code called the connection framework that does a ton of stuff - but it's hardly newbie territory

http://opensource.utr-software.com/connection/

 

[robbieduncan]

There 's an open source third party bit of code called the connection framework that does a ton of stuff - but it's hardly newbie territory

http://opensource.utr-software.com/connection/

That looks like a pretty cool piece of code. The interface they expose is quite similar to the internal one I had for doing FTP (I was writing a tool to sync two directories). The issue I had was parsing the return of an ls command as different servers use different formats!

 

[Grover]

You may want to take a look at the OmniGroup's Omni Web Framework: http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/sourcecode/.

 

[caveman_uk]

That looks like a pretty cool piece of code.

Apparently Sandvox uses it.

 

[robbieduncan]

I remembered that the FTP stuff I wrote was from an older iteration. I ended up using some code called FTPConnection. It used to be available here and was written by Greg Hulands. iirc I fixed a couple of minor bugs I had found.

Once I get home I will post zip of that code as it worked pretty well and was small and easy to understand...

Edit: actually I won't bother. He's one of the contributors to Connection Kit and FTPConnection is in there