Testing wininet with ftp

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Angus

2007-04-13 09:16:29 UTC

Sorry if this is more a setup problem really. But I have a website -
www.xxx.com I can ftp files to the website using eg upload.x.y.com

But if I go to a url in my web browser and I can download from a url - eg
www/xxx.com/downloads/myfile.exe - but I don't seem to be able to connect
via ftp to this file? - or to www.xxx.com ? Is the web browser using a
different protocol to download from www/xxx.com/downloads/myfile.exe? If
not how can I connect to that url via ftp?

confusedperson

Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - SDK]

2007-04-13 13:33:17 UTC

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Your web browser is probably using the HTTP protocol. And you're uploading
files using the FTP protocol. This is quite a common scenario.

upload.x.y.com has an FTP server on it and probably not an HTTP server.
www.xxx.com has an HTTP server on it and probably not a FTP server.

Paul

Post by Angus
Sorry if this is more a setup problem really. But I have a website -
www.xxx.com I can ftp files to the website using eg upload.x.y.com
But if I go to a url in my web browser and I can download from a url - eg
www/xxx.com/downloads/myfile.exe - but I don't seem to be able to connect
via ftp to this file? - or to www.xxx.com ? Is the web browser using a
different protocol to download from www/xxx.com/downloads/myfile.exe? If
not how can I connect to that url via ftp?
confusedperson

Scherbina Vladimir

2007-04-20 08:47:54 UTC

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So the solution is to contact the adminstrators of the site, not the MS
newsgroup ;)
--
--Vladimir, Windows SDK MVP

Post by Paul Baker [MVP, Windows - SDK]
Your web browser is probably using the HTTP protocol. And you're uploading
files using the FTP protocol. This is quite a common scenario.
upload.x.y.com has an FTP server on it and probably not an HTTP server.
www.xxx.com has an HTTP server on it and probably not a FTP server.
Paul