AltME groups: search

I have also unified portal, where I can see all my domains (actually 
something as 7 or 8), I can change MX, DNS entries, FTP, hostings, 
etc. etc.

Granted to get thru most corporate configurations though they probably 
only ALLOW the FTP and HTTP traffic

It's not, but most of the time (at least, here in France), corporates 
allow only HTTP/HTTPs traffic (and sometimes FTP).

repetedly getting this with core 2.6 for os x, the code does a buffered 
ftp copy, is it known issue? should I investigate more what part 
of code is doing this?
** CRASH (Should not happen) - Invalid string width 20 : type 41

Am I wrong or Romano ftp patch is builtin latest versions?

Let's see, anton-user.r...
if find form system/product "view" [


 if (system/version * 1.1.1.0.0) < 1.2.110.0.0 [ ; View1.2.110 has 
 Romano's FTP handler built in.
		do load-thru site/patch/ftp-romano-patch/ftp-patch53.r
	]

I made an observation while using FTP a couple of months ago that 
login names couldn't contain the \ character. I've found that certain 
web providers use \ by standard in their user names to separate the 
user's name with server name. This is non standard, but not likely 
that the webhost will change this policy.

This can be changed with:


net-utils/url-parser/user-char: union net-utils/url-parser/user-char 
make bitset! #"\"


If I hadn't known this, I would not have been able to use this webhost 
(one of my customers have all his sites there). It gave me a lot 
of head scratching, but Pekr found this solution for me. I imagine 
that other REBOL users will face the same problem.

Should it be included even though it's non-standard?

Several scripts I have been using for several years to ftp files 
to our web server are not working now.  I get no error message; the 
script just sits there.  But FTPGadget still works.  I phoned our 
isp and he can't see anything wrong.  He can ftp to the server. What 
could be causing this problem with my scripts?

Louis, I had a similar problem earlier this week.
It might be a firewall issue: try
system/schemes/ftp/passive: true


In the case I looked at, it seems to be just cruft build-up.....Many 
things are not working on that machine, and FTP has now broken too. 
We "solved" the problem by installing SmartFTP -- it works every 
2nd time you run it on that machine.

Thanks, Graham.  I had forgotten about trace.


And thanks, Sunanda. system/schemes/ftp/passive: true solved my problem.

Either your ISP doesn't allow FTP to negotiate ports -- which is 
what active means
Or your firewall doesn't like it.

Passive FTP uses fixed port numbers, so everyone should be happy 
with it.

Is this a bug?

1)  I read a directory on our ftp server and return a set of files 
of which  02 EN AR final.pdf is one of them

2)  I then copy a URL address that returns a 404 indicating it couldn't 
find the file in question ie.  http://www.cpcpension.com/files/2002EN AR final.pdf

3)  I do a  split-paths to-url on the contents of the clipboard:// 
that contains item in step 2)

4)  I compare the file names for equality either using "=" or equal? 
and both return false
5)  I check the type of each file, they are both 'file' types

6)  I check the length of each file, the one from step 1) returns 
20, step 2) returns 26


So, somewhere it is changing the   representation of a space into 
the actual string " ".
Any ideas?
6)

did the latest version of OSX Rebol/Core come with the new FTP stuff? 
I have lots of trouble with a flakey FTP server here both with old 
and new versions of Rebol/Core for OSX...

Anyone had Norton 2005 worm detection, blocking REBOL/view as a worm 
called "DeepThroat Trojan Horse" ? I've had it twice today whilst 
using rebol for ftp uploads

What ftp server do you use?

I gave up .. setup ftp on the windows server and will use ftp on 
the linux side to send the files across as required.

i'm pretty sure that rebol.com doesn't have ftp enabled

I think they came in via ftp

or, you can do this

>> trace/net on
>> print read ftp://ftp.rebol.com/
URL Parse: none none ftp.rebol.com none none none
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "FTP"]
connecting to: ftp.rebol.com
Net-log: [none ["220" "230"]]

Net-log: {220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------}
Net-log: "220-You are user number 3 of 150 allowed."
Net-log: "220-Local time is now 20:15. Server port: 21."
Net-log: "220-This is a private system - No anonymous login"
Net-log: {220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.}

Net-log: {220 You will be disconnected after 30 minutes of inactivity.}
Net-log: [["USER" port/user] "331"]
Net-log: "331 User anonymous OK. Password required"
Net-log: [["PASS" port/pass] "230"]
** User Error: Server error: tcp 530 Login authentication failed
** Near: print read ftp://ftp.rebol.com/

Hmm.. I thought Carl disabled ftp .. .but it's still actives

I have been playing with this for hours and have not made any progress 
after reading everything I could find about ports and ftp. Why does 
the following script not work?

    ftp-port: open [
        scheme: 'ftp 
        host: "ftp.mysite.org" 
        port-id: 21 
        user: "[user-:-mysite-:-org]" 
        pass: "xxxxxxxxxx"
    ] 
    write ftp-port "Test File" 
    close ftp-port

It gives the following error.


** Script Error: write expected destination argument of type: file 
url object block
** Where: func [face value]

you can try to use this: http://rebol.wik.is/Rebol3/Schemes/Ftp

ftp-port: [scheme: 'ftp  host: "ftp.mysite.org"  user: "[user-:-mysite-:-org]" 
 pass: "xxxxxxxxxx"]
read ftp-port

ftp-port: [scheme: 'ftp  host: "ftp.mysite.org"  user: "[user-:-mysite-:-org]" 
 pass: "xxxxxxxxxx" target: %test.txt]
write ftp-port "hello"

You can see the caching when you do something like:
trace/net on

conn: [scheme: 'ftp  host: "ftp.mysite.org"  user: "[user-:-mysite-:-org]" 
 pass: "xxxxxxxxxx"]
loop 2 [probe read conn]

remote-spec:  [scheme: 'ftp  host: "ftp.mysite.org"  user: "[user-:-mysite-:-org]" 
 pass: "xxxxxxxxxx"]
local-file: %text.txt

source-port: open/binary/direct/read local-file ; BINARY mode
print "Attempting FTP connection..."


target-port: open/binary/direct/new/write remote-spec ; BINARY mode

insert target-port copy source-port

attempt [close target-port]
attempt [close source-port]

write [ scheme: 'ftp host: "ftp.compkarori.com" port-id: 21 target: 
%/htdocs/reb/test.txt user: "compka" pass: "*****" ] "hello"

Of course you could use my ftp protocol for Rebol3 if you're brave

Both those ftp code snippets work. Thanks Graham. Thanks Maxim. I'm 
on my Rebol way!

I use CE as well, but often switch to use View editor to edit ftp 
files

and my ftp account is out of line ...

I was cleaning my FTP accound and I found AGG Animation engine I 
wrote year ago. It's probably not finished, but there's a small working 
demo. >> do http://krutek.info/rebol/aggregator-cleaned.r

arg  this email adress doesn't work any more <[cyphre-:-volny-:-cz]>:

I make a  zip archive SVG renderer  script lastest  + svg file for 
 blender  on my  ftp

Sunanda: I quote you from another forum: Tim: A general purpose uploader 
would be very useful. I'll drop you some notes privately on some 
ideas for what it should/could do.....Looking forward to it! My idea 
is of a cgi upload script that for any cgi script, first checks a 
web site and compares timedate stamps, checking to make sure that 
dependencies are current and if not, makes them also available for 
upload. BTW: Some time ago on the rebol ML,

there was reference to an enhanced FTP module. Does that ring a bell? 
<grin> or was that you?

I think that was probbaly Romano and his FTP patches:

http://www.rebol.org/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/rebol/ml-display-thread.r?m=rmlDKCQ


I'm convinved that an FTP program alone isn't enough.  You need an 
intelligent program at at each of the pipe......Sounds like you are 
thinking the same way.

curl is a command line tool for transferring files with URL syntax, 
supporting FTP, FTPS, HTTP, HTTPS, GOPHER, TELNET, DICT, FILE and 
LDAP. Curl supports HTTPS certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP 
uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password 
authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file 
transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a busload of other useful tricks.

Due to a very slow Internet connection, I need to make the FTP module 
of my website builder script more efficient so I don't send files 
unnecessarily. What I have in mind is:


1. Delete all the files in the website directory on my harddrive 
to eliminate all unused files.
2. Build the website to the website directory on my harddrive.

3. Download a list of the file names and creation dates from the 
website (all are in one directory).

4. Read the list of file names and creation dates from the directory 
on my harddrive (all are in the one directory mentioned in 2 above).

5. If a file is on the hard drive but not on the server, send it 
to the server.

6. If a file is on the server but not on the harddrive, delete the 
file on the server.

7. If a file on the harddrive is newer than a file on the server, 
send it to the server.


Has anyone already done this? Am I forgetting anything? Any pointers 
on how to do this?

http://www.compkarori.com/reb/ftp-dirupload.r

otherwise, if you want an interactive ftp program which asks you 
.. do you want to resume or whatever, you need another program.

I used it to upload hundreds of files that other ftp agents croaked 
on.

I found various FTP servers report dates differently. Also the dates 
may not include the timezone, so you would have to assume it is in 
the timezone of the server and get the timezone from the server another 
way. Because there are so many variants of FTP servers you would 
have to do a lot of research to make this reliable, and then you 
wouldn't be 100% sure it would not fall over with some obscure FTP 
server.

Louis -- a couple of pointers about uploading files to a server using 
a slow FTP connection:

(I do it myself with REBOL.org -- most of the development takes place 
on my machine and is uploaded to RO via a 56K modem, so this is based 
on real experience.)

-- If you are uploading a large live file, that file will be available 
and/or "broken" during the course of the upload. Best to upload with 
a temporary file name, and then rename when uploaded.

-- That won't work with CGI scripts under Apache/UNIX as the rename 
won't leave them with the right file permissions to execute. But 
it will work for all other files, including scripts that are DOne 
by your CGIs.

-- We have a checksums file that the uploader uses.  Before uploading 
a file, it checks the file's upload checksum. That way, we only ever 
upload new or changed files.

Thanks, you identified a problem with my ftp send-to utility!

BTW: fixed my ftp send-to utility, so make sure to use the lowercase 
link!

REMARK HAS NOW FINALLY BEEN RELEASED ON THE STEEL WEB SITE


REMARK is a robust web site building tool which allows you to construct 
your own custom tags using rebol values and dialecting.

The main difference of remark with other tools of its kind, is that 
the web pages do not contain code, they contain data or parameters 
to your custom tags.  Remark also persistently reparses tags until 
no more custom tags exist in the dialected tags you create. this 
means you can actually build up your pages with custom which use 
custom tags themselves... talk about leverage! 


at version 1.3.5 it support multiple site configs, ftp dumping, site 
specific configuration, and the very flexible remark engine itself. 


Creating tags is trivial and for simple templating, you don't even 
need to know how to code in rebol... just html content within stored 
files can be nested within your site's pages and will be included, 
by simply adding a tag which is called like the stored html.


Using differently named source file extensions you can even decide 
to parse the content differently, so that you can create different 
page templates or one can even decide to create a make-doc handler 
for example (its not included by default, just possible if you need 
it).


you can check-out the FULL documentation, including tutorial, example 
site, reference page and guides on adding new tags and templates. 


here: http://www.pointillistic.com/open-REBOL/moa/steel/retools/index.html

In March 2007, Olivier Auverlot published his second major book on 
ÒREBOL Ð Guide du programmeurÓ.  Written in his native French the 
book has been well received, not least by Carl Sassenrath:  ÒYes, 
Olivier has done it again with another good book on REBOL.Ó



Olivier and I have been working on an English translation, "REBOL 
- a programmer's guide" for a little while now. The book will eventually 
be published in both printed and electronic form on lulu.com. The 
prices are likely to be Euro 25.00 for the printed edition and Euro 
16.99 for the portable document format version (pdf) version. (For 
those of you outside the Euro zone, Lulu also provides prices in 
Pounds Sterling and US Dollars.)


  As the translation is likely to take some time to complete, we are 
  providing exclusive previews of each chapter for those who don't 
  want to wait until the whole book has been translated. The previews 
  will only be available until the complete book is ready. Each chapter 
  will be published as a pdf once it is available and will cost Euro 
  2.99.


  The first chapter "Discover Rebol in an hour" is a hands-on introduction 
  to Rebol for programmers following the development of an automated 
  File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client. It covers many facets of this 
  highly productive language. It is available today at http://www.lulu.com/content/2092020



The next three chapters, "The Rebol Language", "GUI, graphics and 
sound" and "Networking and the Internet" will be available within 
the next few days.


  Olivier is the author of the book; I am the author of any mistakes 
  that have crept in during the translation.

because you haven't included the ftp protocol??

This is included:

#include %/c/sdk-2-6-2/source/prot.r

and I see it included prot-ftp.r

What else could be wrong?

URL Parse: user pass ftp.bible-way.org none www/turk/backup/ enter-data.exe
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "FTP"]
** Access Error: Cannot connect to ftp.bible-way.org
** Where: open-proto

** Near: info? ftp://user:[pass-:-ftp-:-bible-way-:-org]/www/turk/backup/enter-data.exe
** Press enter to quit...

No, that is not the reason. Maybe you accidentally denied it access. 
So it should be in ZoneAlarm's list of programs. Go to the list and 
remove your program. Then try running it again. Otherwise, I would 
check if ZoneAlarm has any rules which block ftp. Does another ftp 
client work ?

Anton I put a modified version to your slider-demo code into my FTP 
and into the On cooking page ;)

My FTP is a jerk ... it doesn't work

I'm writing it ... and as my ftp is jerked I can't post the adapted 
version of the demo-slider.r file

some freaking things with my ftp but now it's okay

Is there a ftp client for uniserve?

I have somewhere testing script (not for uniserver) working as simple 
ftp server.

Does the FTP server identify itself anywhere in the log ?

to-port: open/binary/new/direct server/:file

URL Parse: visaprom.com password ftp.visaprom.com none apl/ ik104.zip
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "FTP"]
Net-log: [none ["220" "230"]]

Net-log: {220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------}
Net-log: "220-You are user number 188 of 400 allowed."
Net-log: "220-Local time is now 11:33. Server port: 21."
Net-log: "220-This is a private system - No anonymous login"
Net-log: {220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.}

Net-log: {220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.}
Net-log: [["USER" port/user] "331"]
Net-log: "331 User visaprom.com OK. Password required"
Net-log: [["PASS" port/pass] "230"]
Net-log: {230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www     }
Net-log: "230 OK. Current restricted directory is /"
Net-log: ["SYST" "*"]
Net-log: "215 UNIX Type: L8"
Net-log: ["PWD" "25"]
Net-log: {257 "/" is your current location}
Net-log: ["PASV" "227"]
Net-log: "227 Entering Passive Mode (194,9,94,127,216,138)"
Net-log: [["CWD" port/path] ["25" "200"]]

Vladimir - IIRC, FTP is strange beast, and network admins don't like 
it. FTP uses port 21 to establish connection, but to transfer data, 
other port is used  - 20 IIRC.

thats what is bugging me.... ftp from windows command line works...

Check here to understand FTP return codes:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ftp#FTP_return_codes

print read ftp://visaprom.com:[pass-:-ftp-:-visaprom-:-com]
URL Parse: visaprom.com 8ofhjo99 ftp.visaprom.com none none none
Net-log: ["Opening" "tcp" "for" "FTP"]
Net-log: [none ["220" "230"]]

Net-log: {220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------}
Net-log: "220-You are user number 210 of 400 allowed."
Net-log: "220-Local time is now 11:43. Server port: 21."
Net-log: "220-This is a private system - No anonymous login"
Net-log: {220-IPv6 connections are also welcome on this server.}

Net-log: {220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity.}
Net-log: [["USER" port/user] "331"]
Net-log: "331 User visaprom.com OK. Password required"
Net-log: [["PASS" port/pass] "230"]
Net-log: {230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www     }
Net-log: "230 OK. Current restricted directory is /"
Net-log: ["SYST" "*"]
Net-log: "215 UNIX Type: L8"
Net-log: ["PWD" "25"]
Net-log: {257 "/" is your current location}
Net-log: ["PASV" "227"]
Net-log: "227 Entering Passive Mode (194,9,94,127,232,3)"
Net-log: "Type: dir"
Net-log: ["TYPE A" "200"]
Net-log: "Closing cmd port 3783 21"
** Access Error: Network timeout
** Where: confirm
** Near: print read ftp://visaprom.com:[8ofhjo99-:-ftp-:-visaprom-:-com]

here is what simple print read ftp does... :)

There seems to be problem with cmd port. But that runs on port 21, 
whereas data usually runs on 20. Have you tried with system/schemes/ftp/passive: 
true   ?

Dunno how FTP works, but if not in passive mode, then ftp server 
tries to open data port on your side, but that might not be true. 
Definitely some issue on the router ...

Vladimir - what is your router type? Any config docs online with 
screenshots? If it is small router, don't forget to enable statefull 
firewall. FTP connections are "related", without statefull firewall 
enabled it might not work!

but other ftp clients work for him.  Odd.

good point graham - if other ftp clients are working, something is 
stopping REBOL on that PC. Might be disabled in personal firewall?

msn, web, ftp from commander... :(

back from lunch - Vladimir can't log to my ftp server neither - the 
same error message. Must be really weird combination of REBOL vs 
router set-up :-)

... ah yes it's router problem.
Port forwarding for FTP maybe missing some ports?

Where should I check ports and which ports?

how can it work from command prompt with ftp command, from total 
commander and not from rebol script?

Look at Virtual servers - do you run FTP server in your LAN? If so, 
disallow it for a while. (this will most probabyl not help though)

I went thru all the docs, and nothing suspicious in there. As your 
Total Commander FTP connection works, it has to be REBOL in conjunction 
with your local PC firewall or something like that. Or REBOL ftp 
protocol working differentcly could be the cause, but not sure, as 
it works from other locations ...

only problem is router.... without it if I connect directly PC with 
WAN connection... rebol scripts work...

I connect router on wan and pc on lan port and only rebol script 
doesnt work...
filezilla, total commander, ftp command from windows works...

I know (at least I thought I knew...  :( ) how to set up network 
and routers... I did this hundreds of times, and had problems with 
altme, torrent downloaders, games and many others... and solved them....

I tried to add ftp ports, and even whole range from 0-65535 to NAT 
routing tables.... tried to put whole lan ip range into dmz... Ill 
try tomorrow....

While Im at this... Does anyone know how ftp works from rebol ?

Details about ftp imlementation in rebol ?

the source to ftp is available

probe system/schemes/ftp

here is something new....
I tried few things from windows command line.
here are two scripts and two logs:
1. script
binary
cd apl
put c:\slanje\zip\ik104test.zip
quit

1.log
......
230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www
230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
ftp> binary
200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary
ftp> cd apl
250 OK. Current directory is /apl
ftp> put c:\slanje\zip\ik104test.zip
200 PORT command successful

425 Could not open data connection to port 35370: Operation timed 
out
ftp> quit
221-Goodbye. You uploaded 0 and downloaded 0 kbytes.
221 Logout.

2.script
LITERAL PASV
cd apl
put c:\slanje\zip\ik104test.zip
quit

2.log
.....
230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www
230 OK. Current restricted directory is /
ftp> LITERAL PASV
227 Entering Passive Mode (194,9,94,127,234,131)
ftp> cd apl
Connection closed by remote host.
ftp> put c:\slanje\zip\ik104test.zip
Not connected.
ftp> quit

Here is log from rebol ftp upload:


No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol 
Info

     67 3.356898    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP   
        spiral-admin > ftp [SYN] Seq=0 Win=16384 Len=0 MSS=1460

     79 3.982028    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP   
        ftp > spiral-admin [SYN, ACK] Seq=0 Ack=1 Win=16384 Len=0 MSS=1100

     80 3.982082    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP   
        spiral-admin > ftp [ACK] Seq=1 Ack=1 Win=16500 Len=0

     90 4.056926    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP   
        Response: 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------

     92 4.057544    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        Request: USER visaprom.com

    102 4.129540    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 331 User visaprom.com OK. Password required

    103 4.129689    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: PASS Du4m1t0R

    106 4.241608    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www    
     

    107 4.241781    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: SYST

    118 4.305921    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 215 UNIX Type: L8

    119 4.306117    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: PWD

    134 4.367656    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 257 "/" is your current location

    136 4.370939    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: PORT 192,168,2,108,13,111

    143 4.435976    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 200 PORT command successful

    144 4.468135    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: CWD apl/

    194 5.499179    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        [TCP Retransmission] Request: CWD apl/

    198 5.565745    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 250 OK. Current directory is /apl

    199 5.565955    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: TYPE I

    275 7.640872    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary

    276 7.641186    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: STOR ik104test.zip

    290 7.903130    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP  
        ftp > spiral-admin [ACK] Seq=613 Ack=111 Win=16500 Len=0

   1279 37.655879   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP 
        spiral-admin > ftp [FIN, ACK] Seq=111 Ack=613 Win=15888 Len=0

No.     Time        Source                Destination           Protocol 
Info

     90 2.750586    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        Request: TYPE I

     97 2.823074    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP   
        Response: 200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary

     98 2.828500    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        Request: PASV

    113 3.171841    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        [TCP Retransmission] Request: PASV

    114 3.244193    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP  
        [TCP Previous segment lost] ftp > mgemanagement [ACK] Seq=80 
    Ack=15 Win=16500 Len=0

    131 3.889034    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        [TCP Retransmission] Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (194,9,94,127,250,69)

    137 3.984887    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP  
        Request: STOR ik104test.zip

    149 4.247163    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP  
        ftp > mgemanagement [ACK] Seq=80 Ack=35 Win=16500 Len=0

    210 7.046287    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 150 Accepted data connection

    241 7.218716    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP  
        mgemanagement > ftp [ACK] Seq=35 Ack=110 Win=16269 Len=0

   1613 17.145048   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP 
        Response: 226-File successfully transferred

   1617 17.172970   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP 
        Request: SIZE ik104test.zip

   1620 17.277591   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP 
        Response: 213 566605

   1623 17.375906   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP 
        Request: TYPE A

   1628 17.498619   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP 
        Response: 200 TYPE is now ASCII

   1629 17.516657   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP 
        Request: PASV

   1633 17.644044   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP 
        Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (194,9,94,127,205,237)

   1637 17.750889   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP 
        Request: LIST

   1643 17.835367   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP 
        Response: 150 Accepted data connection

   1644 17.863490   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP 
        Response: 226-Options: -a -l 

   1645 17.863548   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP 
        mgemanagement > ftp [ACK] Seq=75 Ack=364 Win=16015 Len=0

there it is.... difference is:

in total cmd:
on Request: STOR ik104test.zip
ftp > mgemanagement [ACK] Seq=80 Ack=35 Win=16500 Len=0
Response: 150 Accepted data connection

and in rebol
response is

 290 7.903130    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP  
     ftp > spiral-admin [ACK] Seq=613 Ack=111 Win=16500 Len=0
30 seconds pause

1279 37.655879   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP 
     spiral-admin > ftp [FIN, ACK] Seq=111 Ack=613 Win=15888 Len=0 
   149 4.247163    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP

Your REBOL FTP session doesn't seem to use passive mode while Total 
Cmd does.

I think we several times suggested to set system/schemes/ftp/passive: 
true, and IIRC Vladimir claimed that it made no change for him ....

4 0.136676    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP    
  Response: 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [privsep] [TLS] ----------

      5 0.136919    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP    
        Request: USER visaprom.com

      6 0.195551    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP    
        Response: 331 User visaprom.com OK. Password required

      7 0.195740    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP    
        Request: PASS pass

      8 0.298224    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP    
        Response: 230-User visaprom.com has group access to:  www     

      9 0.298434    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP    
        Request: SYST

     10 0.359996    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP   
        Response: 215 UNIX Type: L8

     11 0.360264    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        Request: PWD

     12 0.424862    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP   
        Response: 257 "/" is your current location

     13 0.425117    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        Request: PASV

     14 0.485707    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP   
        Response: 227 Entering Passive Mode (194,9,94,127,205,50)

     18 0.547818    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        Request: CWD apl/

     19 1.613365    192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          FTP   
        [TCP Retransmission] Request: CWD apl/

     20 1.675732    194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP   
        [TCP Previous segment lost] ftp > gtrack-ne [ACK] Seq=603 Ack=66 
     Win=16500 Len=0

    106 30.535545   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP  
        gtrack-ne > ftp [FIN, ACK] Seq=66 Ack=568 Win=15933 Len=0

    107 30.600678   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP  
        ftp > gtrack-ne [ACK] Seq=603 Ack=67 Win=16500 Len=0

    108 30.600776   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         FTP  
        Response: 250 Logout.

    109 30.600798   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP  
        [TCP Dup ACK 106#1] gtrack-ne > ftp [ACK] Seq=67 Ack=568 Win=15933 
    Len=0 SLE=603 SRE=616

    110 30.601077   194.9.94.127          192.168.2.108         TCP  
        ftp > gtrack-ne [FIN, ACK] Seq=616 Ack=67 Win=16500 Len=0

    111 30.601086   192.168.2.108         194.9.94.127          TCP  
        [TCP Dup ACK 106#2] gtrack-ne > ftp [ACK] Seq=67 Ack=568 Win=15933 
    Len=0 SLE=603 SRE=617

One thing is clear - you have to have allowed connection tracking 
in your firewall, and ftp communication is being done by using so 
called "related" connections ...

I used wxwidgets before... and it works... but I hate bloated stuff 
every day more and more... 

And Rebol way with one file download and simple text file few lines 
long working on linux and win just as it is............

Man, I'll wait for rebol3 and its modules and other more usefull 
stuff and wont look back.... :)

Until then I'll keep using rebol for stuff like ftp, email and simple 
interface stuff.....

in fact I've not experienced that great reliability with USB drives. 
more often than not I find myself using an FTP server as the USB 
drives have failed, files have been screwed up or not properly updated.

and the one reason we continue using rebol is because we are of the 
type of people who WILL download an RFC and fix the http, ftp, proxy, 
xml, (whatever) protocol ourselves.

So, for a SELECT, you won't have to search around with your eyes 
for the VALUE argument, as in this example from the FTP scheme which 
I am currently looking at:

just like we just SEND a mail, READ a web site, or WRITE an ftp server. 
 if we could also LOAD/SAVE any XML technologies (XML files, DTDs, 
Schemas, etc), then R3 would immediately get appeal in the corporate 
world.  It would actually have value to them .

PostScript normally uses units of "points" for placing graphics on 
the page. I find it more convenient to work with centimeters. I got 
the following snippet of PostScript code from a public domain program 
called "GLE" which I believe is available at any large ftp site; 
I recommend this graphics program. By examining the PostScript output 
of that program I collected the following piece of PostScript code:


matrix currentmatrix /originmat exch def /umatrix {originmat matrix 
concatmatrix setmatrix} def [28.3465 0 0 28.3465 10.5 100.0] umatrix


What this basically does is rescale the page so that now all following 
commands will work as if the centimeter is the basic unit of length. 
This places (0,0) near the bottom left of the page and (21,24) near 
the top right of the page.


If you don't do this, then (0,0) is the bottom left corner of the 
page and (612,792) is the top right corner of the page (if you are 
using an 8 1/2 inch by 11 inch sheet of paper). These are the default 
PostScript units; 72 of these to an inch. 28.3465 to a centimeter, 
thus the numbers above in the last line of PostScript code.

ftp ?

can we do ftp in uniserve yet?

FTP server, a service that I wanted to add to UniServe since a long 
time...

Sure, but may need some improvement in UniServe to make services 
collaboration more flexible. I guess it can be done with the current 
UniServe and the uniserve/shared context to make the ftp-cmd and 
ftp-data port collaborate.

I have some simple ftp server code... but not for uniserve.. maybe 
I could try to rewrite it.. but first I want to improve my proxy 
server:)