On 08/07/2011 04:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
I need a way to convert a web URL to a valid FTP URL. For example,
convert this:
http://www.domain.com/folder/file.txt
to this:
ftp://user:p...@domain.com/webroot/folder/file.txt
Not all servers use "public_html" so I can't just hard-code that as
the web root. Is there a generic way to indicate the web folder on a
server, the same way a tilde indicates the user's home folder? Or any
other way to get the path?
Jacqueline,
This cannot be done unless you control the web server. A *lot* of web
servers now-a-days are not Apache (and its derivatives), but rather
routing servers like Django, Happstack, Snap, AllegroServe, etc. Routing
web frameworks allow you to literally host source files anywhere. For
example, using Happstack I can say something like (forgive the Haskell
code):
route =
msum [ file "file.txt" $ serveFile "/home/someUsername/files/blah.wav" ]
As you can see, what was requested has absolutely nothing to do with
what was actually served to the browser.
So, the only way you can begin to solve this issue is if you have direct
access to the web server and know how it's routing and serving static
content.
Jeff M.
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