Greg:

Sorry, wrong answer, please try again!

Actually these 4 websites encourage you to
use FTP and tools such as WS-FTP work great.

All of these sites have tutorials telling the
you how to use FTP.
Some of them even have a special FTP url to use (which
works great with WS_FTP or FTP from the DOS prompt /UNIX prompt)

However, after trying
dozens of possibilities, I cannot get
REBOL to work with the two sites (mentioned below).

I am encouraging this discussion to get the final 
bugs worked out of REBOL's ftp, after which
either they will release a REBOL/core patch,
or I will document everything in a tutorial or both.

Hint, you may actually have to register for 
your own websites (see below) to resolve these issues.
Only by banging on many FTP sessions/servers did
I discover these "bugs".

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 3:10 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [REBOL] Problems with FTP - Get 4 free websites if you solve
> this puzzle Re:(2)
> 
> 
> As suspected, the two sites you have problems with are not 
> allowing straight
> FTP. They probably are allowing passive via the browser 
> interface. This
> is the way most ISP's do it. Allowing FTP uploads is an ISP's 
> worst nightmare.
> Holger may know how to do it, but from what I hear it is not 
> that easy to
> implement.
> 
> Greg Piney
> Sr. Systems Administrator
> S&P Web Engineering
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 02/09/2000 01:39:11 PM
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> 
> Hey rebols:
> I see no replies to my bug/puzzle.
> This is not a joke.
> Do you know why ftp fails
> on the second two FREE websites?
> Do you know how to fix it?
> Is it a bug in rebol? or a DNS issue? or a socks issue?
> A firewall issue?
> You get 4 FREE websites if you can solve the problem.
> 
> >
> > I have more clues and a challenge to
> > the most expert rebolutionaries...
> > See if you can figure this one out.
> >
> > Actually you get 2 free web-sites just for
> > reading this message...
> >
> > I list below 4 sites that allow you to set
> > up free web-sites (not necessarily talking about CGI space here).
> > You go into each of these sites, fill out the form
> > and set up a free web-site.
> > These two work with rebol ftp scripts.(No problems.)
> >
> > 1.   http://www.50megs.com/
> > 2.   http://www.hypermart.net/
> >
> > Go ahead and set up your rebol/view test.r scripts on these
> > and show them to the world.
> > ---------------------------
> >
> > 3 and 4 below do not work with rebol ftp (not yet)
> > I have tried various 'schemes' and
> >
> > rebol/core 2.2 and
> > rebol/view - but can't copy any files
> > to these websites with rebol ftp.
> >
> > 3. http://www.angelfire.com/
> > 4. http://www.freeyellow.com/
> >
> > The problem has something to do with "passive ftp"
> > I think.
> >
> > Feel free to modify the ftp-upload function below
> > to make it work. Or create your own ftp-upload function
> > from scratch...
> >
> >
> > ;-------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> ftp-upload: function [
>      "Upload the html reports via FTP to the web server."
>      orpt     ; object that specifies path/target-file and
>  ][
>     ftp-block
>  ][
>      ftp-block: [
>          scheme: 'ftp
>          host: server-name
>          user: user-name
>          pass: password
>          path: orpt/ftp-path
>         target: orpt/filename
>      ]
> 
>      print rejoin ["Transfering file " orpt/filename " via ftp..."  ]
> 
>      write ftp-block read orpt/htm-file
>  ]
> 
> 
> 
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> 

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