Re: WinInet error 12003 with wwFTP.FTPsendfile()

West Wind Internet Protocols

Dec. 21, 2012
01:04 pm
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From:	Frits van den Munckhof
To:	Rick Strahl

Thanks again Rick for your quick response. I always wonder how you can keep up this great support.

I feel a a little "retarded", but can I get any other error message than the result code?

I'm not in a position to test at this moment. But I suspect the problem could be that I didn't start cTarget with a forward slash (though I used a FULLPATH() for the cSource).

Could that be the problem? A simple Yes or No would be great.

And the error message is?

Make sure the server names and paths are correct and trimmed too.

FtpConnect() actually doesn't connect (in the typical style of WinInet), but simply sets the connection parameters. It's not until you actually do something with the connection that the actual network operations start to happen. Rarely do you see an error on FtpConnect() unless the domain names are completely wrong/invalid.

+++ Rick ---

Sorry Rick, for not being clear enough.

This first part succeeds (resultcode 0)

LOCAL lnResult
lnResult=THISFORM.Ftp.FTPconnect(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtFTPserver.Value),ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtUserID.Value),ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtPassword.Value))IF lnResult=0* Succes
	AppMsg("De connectie met de FTP-server '"+THISFORM.txtFTPserver.Value+"' is geslaagd","Connectie geslaagd","I")
	THISFORM.Ftp.FTPclose()ELSE* Connectie mislukt
	AppMsg("De connectie met de FTP-server '"+THISFORM.txtFTPserver.Value+"' is mislukt. WinInet Error code: "+TRIMSTR(lnResult),"Connectie mislukt","X")RETURN .F.ENDIF

This second statement fails (resultcode 12003), of course without changing the input values for the text-fields between the 2 calls.

lnResult=THISFORM.Ftp.FTPsendfile(ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtFTPserver.Value),lcFile,JUSTFNAME(lcFile),;ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtUserID.Value),ALLTRIM(THISFORM.txtPassword.Value))

This is not a very useful error request.

What's the code? What and when does it fail?

Check the server name and make sure the domain name is correct and trimmed.

+++ Rick ---

MSDN suggested this is because of going to a non-Microsoft ftp-server. Passive mode was adviced.

Just connecting to the server succeeds.

I've tried setting lpassiveftp to .T.. That doesn't seem to work. Same error. Any other ideas?