Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
> I do a lot of server script editing directly via my FTP client…
> remote editing. I know yeah, some of you wizard have those scripts
> working via a stack that allows you to edit in the script editor…
> someday one of you will write a plug in for the rest of us…
I haven't yet generalized my uploader, though I might some day because I
use variants of it on most of my projects lately, so many of them being
client-server systems.
One of the reasons I haven't generalized them is that they're easy
enough to write as a one-off.
Here's the one I use for updating LiveNet (the downloadable stack
available in the IDE formerly known as RevNet) - note that scp is able
to securely transfer the file without stopping for a password prompt
because I have my local machine's public SSH key shared with that
server, something we're all doing with our servers anyway for both
security and convenience, aren't we?:
on mouseUp
set cursor to watch
-- Make compressed copy of stack file:
set the itemdel to "/"
put the filename of stack "LiveNet" into tFile
put tFile &".gz" into tGZFile
put compress(url ("binfile:"& tFile)) into \
url ("binfile:"& tGZFile)
-- Post to URL:
put "scp ""e& tGZFile "e& \
" u...@domain.com:~/public_html/livenet" &
"/LiveNet.livecode.gz" into tCmd
put shell(tCmd) into tResult
if tResult is not empty then
put tResult
else
put "Uploaded successfully!"
end if
end mouseUp
Note that the first half of that is just making the compressed copy of
the stack for upload. I like to do that because it shortens transfer
times, but without that it's an even simpler handler, just building the
syntax for scp which is pretty straightforward, using the same
Source-then-Destination syntax we see in revCopyFile and many other file
moving commands:
scp <pathtolocalfile> <user>@<host>:<pathtoserverfile>
You can also switch that around to download, or even move files from one
remote machine to another.
You write an uploader once and put it in your Plugins folder, and then
anytime you need to update your server an automated secure upload is
just one click away.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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