It's true that you can't just read the file system of the client But that doesn't mean that you can't build a FTP client. You should still be able to use FileReference and binary sockets to create an upload only FTP client.
/Max On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:41 PM, andrew_young.rm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peace! > > Thanks... that's what I was looking for... so I'll concentrate on > creating an AIR module instead :) thanks for your confirmation > > Sincerely, > > Andrew John Young > > --- In [email protected], "Samuel Neff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Not possible in web hosted Flex. Even with FP10 which supports > reading and >> writing local files with restrictions, you can't iterate through > files in a >> direcory and upload them. >> >> AIR can do it though, if that's an option for you. >> >> Sam >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------- >> We're Hiring! Seeking passionate Flex, C#, or C++ (RTSP, H264) > developer in >> the Washington D.C. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:45 AM, andrew_young.rm < >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Peace! >> > >> > Hi, newbie here, I've searched all 70 messages that had the keyword >> > FTP in this group but so far I have not seen a concrete answer as to >> > the possibility of doing an FTP client program using FLEX/AS3 (not > AIR). >> > >> > Humbly I'd like to ask how we can socket.writeObject or >> > socket.writeMultiByte (after establishing an FTP connection of course) >> > a file that is inside the client's PC? >> > >> > Our problem is that we have a project site that aims to upload 90k >> > number of files (not 90k bytes but 90k number of files). I was aiming >> > to use FileReferenceList but found out that you can only upload using >> > GET/POST functions. Since my server uses open source (PHP) technology, >> > I thought it would be better to transfer the files via FTP (since PHP >> > does have an execution time limit and extending said execution time >> > will bog down the shared server. (oh did I mention they have only one >> > guy uploading all the files? :) ) >> > >> > I've scoured the web for an AS3 solution but so far can't find any... >> > is this thing even possible? (I hope it is) >> > >> > Sincerely, >> > >> > Andrew John Young
