[squeak-dev] Re: bookmorph and ftp, anybody have this working?

Bert Freudenberg bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Jul 29 20:11:20 UTC 2011


Your best bet would be to ask Ted Kaehler. 

- Bert -

On 29.07.2011, at 19:30, Gary Dunn wrote:

> The basic Squeak FTP code works. I entered these lines in a workspace, "do it" to each, and got a listing of my home account at my ISP. Now I suspect the issue is with how the ftp:// line is being parsed.
> 
> I used ftp://knowtree@leahi.aloha.com/chalkdustbooks/MyBook1.sp for my book, in place of my iMac, and got the same error. And yes, I previously created that folder and it shows in the listing returned by this code.
> 
> leahi := ServerDirectory new.
> 
> leahi server: 'leahi.aloha.com'
> 
> leahi user: 'knowtree'
> 
> leahi password: 'MyActualPassword'
> 
> leahi directory: '/'
> 
> Transcript show: leahi getFileList
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Gary Dunn <garydunnhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Same result in Win7.
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Gary Dunn <garydunnhi at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is one of those dumb brain freeze things that I hope will be easy to answer for someone already doing this.
> 
> I am finishing up my how-to-make-a-book book and want to inclde a section on uploading to a server. To get started I thought I'd work out how to upload and download pages. Right off the bat I got an error. BookMorph>>getStemUrl fails at
> 
> initial isEmpty
> 		ifTrue: [initial := ServerDirectory defaultStemUrl , '1.sp'].
> 
> because ServerDirectory does not have the requested server in a Dictionary. When I look at that code it appears to be creating a random name, which is not what I want. 
> 
> According to some class comments (sorry, can't find then now) I should come up with my url, like ftp://server/folder/myBook1.sp and when I do Book menu "send all pages to server" I should select "Use page numbers" and paste in my URL. I never got the chance to paste in my URL. 
> 
> Back in 
> 
> getStemUrl
> 	"Try to find the old place where this book was stored. Confirm with the 
> 	user. Else ask for new place."
> 	| initial pg url knownURL |
> 
> 	knownURL := false.
> 	initial := ''.
> 
> I changed the value of initial to my URL, 
> 
> 	initial := 'ftp://10.0.1.10/squeakftp/myBook1.sp'.
> 
> Now I am asked for the URL, with that one filled in. But then I get a prompt for the password for nil. Naturally that failed. More reading class comments and code comments (thank goodness for those!) I discovered that I can add my username with a URL of 'ftp://gary@10.0.1.10/squeakftp/myBook1.sp'
> 
> Almost there.
> 
> I am prompted for the URL twice. After the second prompt I get the password prompt, then an error. My FTP server has replied 550 squeakftp: no such directory (or something similar). 
> 
> I can connect from the same host (my laptop running FreeBSD) using the command line FTP, works fine. I can also use gFTP. I even changed the permissions on the squeakftp folder to 777. 
> 
> I tried 'ftp://gary@10.0.1.10/Users/gary/squeakftp/myBook1.sp' (the server is an iMac, so the full path is /Users/gary/squeakftp). Also 550.
> 
> I tried 'ftp://gary@10.0.1.10//Users/gary/squeakftp/myBook1.sp' but Squeak choked on the double slash -- asked for a second password for user nil. Not a problem.
> 
> Any ideas why I am getting the 550 error?
> 
> Note to self: try it from Windows instead of FreeBSD.
> 
> -- 
> Gary Dunn
> Honolulu
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> -- 
> Gary Dunn
> Honolulu
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> -- 
> Gary Dunn
> Honolulu
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