Thread: FTP Help( FtpSetCurrentDirectory() )?

I am working on an FTP program. I was wondering how to use FtpSetCurrentDirectroy(). According to MSDN it goes like this:


BOOL WINAPI FtpGetFile(
HINTERNET hConnect,
LPCTSTR lpszRemoteFile,
LPCTSTR lpszNewFile,
BOOL fFailIfExists,
DWORD dwFlagsAndAttributes,
DWORD dwFlags,
DWORD dwContext
);


How do I get the HINTERNET. It is the handle to a valid FTP session. That's basically all I need! Thanks!

Hey SyntaxBubble,

In an ftp connection you should have to varibles of HINTERNET.

Here is a bit of code to see what hInstance is:

Code:

BOOL      	bSuccess;
HINTERNET      hIntSession, hFtpSession;

// Open an internet session

hIntSession = ::InternetOpen ("FTP", INTERNET_OPEN_TYPE_PRECONFIG, 0, 0, INTERNET_FLAG_ASYNC);

// form a connection to www.aspect2k.com

       hFtpSession = InternetConnect (hIntSession, "www.aspect2k.com", 
      	INTERNET_DEFAULT_FTP_PORT, "anonymous", "[email protected]", 
      	INTERNET_SERVICE_FTP, 0, 0);

      bSuccess = FtpSetCurrentDirectory( hFtpSession, "");      




      InternetCloseHandle (hFtpSession);
      InternetCloseHandle (hIntSession);

That sets the current directory to the default root.

TNT

Now I got that working. How would I retrieve all files from the dir and put the file names in the listbox?

Hey,

Dunno why i called you garfield before lol...

MSDN has a thing on FindFirstFile(), (internet platform sdk). You can use that function to get all the files.

I am not 100% sure about this i have never tried it,

prot:

HRESULT FindFirstFile(
[in, string] LPCWSTR wsSearchFile
[out] LPWIN32_FIND_DATAW pFindFileData
[out] LPHANDLE pSearchHandle
);


so mabey you could do somthing like FindFirestFile("*.*" ....)

Sorry i cant be of more help

TNT

if you want to obtain the files on remote servers you have to use FtpFindFirstFile() and FtpFindNextFile(). this should find all the files in the directory you set before.

hFindFile = FtpFindFirstFile(hService,"*.**",&dwFlags,INTERNET _FLAG_RELOAD,0);
if(hFindFile) {
//setup error handing for no files.
}
while(InternetFindNextFile(hFIndFile,&dwFlags)) {
if( (dwFlags.dwFileAttributes & FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY) == FILE_ATTRIBUTE_DIRECTORY ) {
//send directory name to listbox
}
else
send files name to listbox
}
else {
//setup error handling for no files on server.
}

hope this helps.

Don't forget to close the FindFile() ect with FindClose() ect.