Best way of sending a text file from local pc to remote server

team eGlobe

Hello,
What is the best way of sending a locally generated text file to a remote server for further processing.(manual ftp ing is not preffered)
Thanks

ChRoMe

team eGlobe wrote: »

Hello,
What is the best way of sending a locally generated text file to a remote server for further processing.(manual ftp ing is not preffered)
Thanks

You could send it via HTTP POST, to be honest you need to give a bit more information than two sentences for anyone to be able to suggest a reasonable solution.

srsly78

No manual ftping?

Ok then, use automated ftp via script. Since it's 2013 use scp ofc, noone uses ftp anymore.

Colonel Panic

No one, like Bloomberg.

ChRoMe

Colonel Panic wrote: »

No one, like Bloomberg.

Aye, although it should be, its no where near dead yet.

Colonel Panic

Of course, I'm just a not fan of ridiculous sweeping statements.

Dave!

scp

team eGlobe

ChRoMe wrote: »

You could send it via HTTP POST, to be honest you need to give a bit more information than two sentences for anyone to be able to suggest a reasonable solution.

Thanks Chrome. Sorry about my vague description. Trying to do again...

I have a third-party desktop application installed on my PC say TT.
Each time I use and complete a task using TT, it generates a .txt file (say xtt.txt) and stores in a location C:\TT
After completing a task on TT, I want to send the generated xtt.txt to a specific location remote server.
In the remote server xtt.txt will be read and do some calculations, insert to db etc will happen.

I need help to send xtt.txt from local PC to remote server.

Thanks

ChRoMe

team eGlobe wrote: »

Thanks Chrome. Sorry about my vague description. Trying to do again...

I have a third-party desktop application installed on my PC say TT.
Each time I use and complete a task using TT, it generates a .txt file (say xtt.txt) and stores in a location C:\TT
After completing a task on TT, I want to send the generated xtt.txt to a specific location remote server.
In the remote server xtt.txt will be read and do some calculations, insert to db etc will happen.

I need help to send xtt.txt from local PC to remote server.

Thanks

Heh... lets start at the start

Is the destination server Linux or Windows?

team eGlobe

ChRoMe wrote: »

Heh... lets start at the start

Is the destination server Linux or Windows?

Destination server is Linux and further processing of this txt file will be using PHP code.

ChRoMe

team eGlobe wrote: »

Destination server is Linux and further processing of this txt file will be using PHP code.

I presume the software is running on Windows?

team eGlobe

ChRoMe wrote: »

I presume the software is running on Windows?

Yes always. and user have full rights to install anything.

srsly78

Just make a batch file and put the manual commands in there.

You do know how to do this manually right? That is the first step. I suggest you install something like putty or winscp.

team eGlobe

Yes I use ftp clients for manual transfer. is it possible to do this in a batch file like specifying input file, destination folder, ftp login details etc. and transfer just by a double clicking that batch file?

srsly78

Yes very easily. Just read the documentation for ftp. Lots of relevant stuff here -> http://www.dostips.com/DtCodeBatchFiles.php

It just involves adding some parameters to the ftp command. Or you can even have ftp read the commands from a file. So you just put the normal commands you would issue manually into a file, then it executes them one by one.

team eGlobe

Thanks very much srsly78. I wasn't thinking in this direction at all. thought of doing this with java or ajax. after your post got this http://winscp.net/eng/docs/scripting. I think this is enough. will post again if I am stuck. Thanks guys