Concerning my Simple URL Upload demo, Bernie asked:

>Your demo works fine for the dropbox but I can't get it to upload to my
>webspace and just sits there forever trying to make a connection.
>
>Maybe it's because, when connecting with Fetch, I have to enter my username
>and password. Is there any way to send this info?


and George added:


>Perfect.  Thanks.  (I will also need to pass user and password to the server)


Bernie and George,

Ah, you've been stung by automation!

Just hard code your URL, i.e., specify your URL string in the following format:


ftp://[user ID:password@][:port]/[path name/][name of file to upload]


By putting an interface on this that creates the URL string from 
information inputted into edit fields for each of the URL parameters, 
we could create our own Fetch. I would think we could use FB^3's 
FILE$ function to search for a file and return an FSSpec, rather than 
being stuck with using a file in the same folder as our application. 
But I have not really experimented with this. I'm still hoping to get 
things working is OS X.

BTW, here are a few additional reminders from the URL Access Manager 
docs concerning the use of URLSimpleUpload in conjunction with the 
format of the URL string and the openFlags parameter:

To specify the name of the resulting file or directory, set the URL 
string to a fully specified URL that does not end with a slash (/) 
character.

If the file or directory exists and you want to replace it, specify 
the path to the destination directory, terminate the path with a 
slash (/), and specify _kURLReplaceExistingFlag in the openFlags 
parameter.

If you specify a name that already exists on the server and you do 
not specify _kURLReplaceExistingFlag in the openFlags parameter, 
URLSimpleUpload returns the error kURLDestinationExistsError.

If you do not specify a name, do not specify 
_kURLReplaceExistingFlag, and the name already exists on the server, 
the URL Access Manager creates a unique name by appending a number to 
the original name before the extension, if any.

I hope this proves useful.

Ken