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[CyberRax]

Hi! My goal is to get the file listing from a remote FTP server, but I don't know where to start. Had a look on the DllCall: Basic FTP Functions
thread, but as far as I can tell the method of using FTP_FindFirstFile/FTP_FindNextFile loop is rather cumbersome and, to my understanding, puts a too heavy load on the server (the server I'm intending to use it on already services a lot of users and generates the listing xx times a second due the constant requesting by connected FTP clients).
I'd preffer to get something like the output of "list" command or what PHP's ftp_rawlist() delivers, which ought to more CPU-friendly on the server's side. Is that possible and if yes then how to implement this?

[Titan]

The second example for FileAppend demonstrates how you can use ftp.exe to execute server commands.
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[Murp|e]

You will need to use the "ls" command which does exactly what you want namely "List files in remote directory".

I've been wanting to write a really simple FTP script that will allow me to drop files on to a window to have them uploaded to a predefined folder (a sort of online temp folder) and possibly list the existing files.

Libcurl can be used for uploading via FTP and report the progress of the upload/download. There's another thread about this in the forums by olfen. I think I asked him for some more examples of how to use libcurl with FTP.