Re: [ OT ] WinInet API: Accessing a file on FTP for Reading
From: Chris \( Val \) (chrisval_at_bigpond.com.au)
Date: 06/02/04
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Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 00:35:31 +1000
"Rashid" <mrashidsaleem@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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|I am using WinInet APIs to access a file on an FTP server (using
| InternetOpen, InternetConnect, FtpOpenFile). Before downloading, I
| want to make sure that the file I am accessing is not being written by
| any other process at the same time. If somebody is uploading a large
| file, I dont want my process to read partially-written file. I have
| tried FtpRenameFile (e.g. renaming file abc.txt to the same name
| abc.txt). This works in most cases and guarantees that no other
| process is accessing the file, but some ftp servers refuse to rename
| the file to same name. I can not change the name of the file. Is there
| a better alternative (like the one provided by CreateFile windows API
| through FILE_SHARE_READ, FILE_SHARE_WRITE flags)?
This is off topic for this group, but you can achieve
what you want through Windows Scripting, and in particular
Windows Management Instrumentation "WMI" - There are a great
deal off excellent tutorials and tools for this stuff on the
Microsoft web site.
Good luck.
Chris Val
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