Recently I had the need to FTP some files in the old Classic ASP platform. The catch is that I need it to be in JScript (Javascript for IIS). In my experience most people use VB script in their ASP environment,. the past few years I have grown to prefer using JScript. If you'd like to use VBScript to FTP then might I suggest this great source. It is from this that I have adapted my JS version.
FTP in ASP (JScript)
In my current environment I never use serverside JScript to render HTML, rather only to serve in a JSON based API format. For the purposes of sharing, I trimmed down the scaffolding into the bare necessities and was left only needing a JSON polyfill:
JSON polyfill that works in ASP JScript.
var ftp = (function() {
/*
* Copy a file(s) to a directory on a remote FTP server.
*
* Adapted from the very usefull post @ http://benmeg.com/code/asp/ftp.asp.html
*/
function copyTo(address, username, password, remote_directory, files_to_put, isBinary) {
var objFSO = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"),
oScript = Server.CreateObject("WSCRIPT.SHELL"),
oFileSys = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject"),
objTextFile, oScriptNet, oFile, strCMD, strTempFile,
strCommandResult = '',
uniqueNumber = '__'; // This is for you to implement a random key on your system (if required).
// Build our ftp-commands file
objTextFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile(Server.MapPath('ftpCommand' + uniqueNumber + '.ftp'));
objTextFile.WriteLine('lcd ' + Server.MapPath('.'));
objTextFile.WriteLine('open ' + address);
objTextFile.WriteLine(username);
objTextFile.WriteLine(password);
// Check to see if we need to issue a 'cd' command
if (remote_directory != '')
objTextFile.WriteLine('cd ' + remote_directory);
objTextFile.WriteLine('prompt');
// If the file(s) is/are binary (i.e. .jpg, .mdb, etc..)
if (isBinary)
objTextFile.WriteLine('binary');
// If there are multiple files to put, we need to use the command 'mput', instead of 'put'
if (files_to_put.indexOf('*') > -1)
objTextFile.WriteLine('mput ' + files_to_put);
else
objTextFile.WriteLine('put ' + files_to_put);
objTextFile.WriteLine('bye');
objTextFile.Close();
delete objTextFile;
// Pipe output from cmd.exe to a temporary file
strTempFile = Server.MapPath('ftpOutput-' + uniqueNumber + '.ftp');
// Use cmd.exe to run ftp.exe, parsing our newly created command file
oScript.Run('cmd.exe /c ' + 'ftp.exe -s:' + Server.MapPath('ftpCommand' + uniqueNumber + '.ftp') + ' > ' + strTempFile, 0, true);
oFile = oFileSys.OpenTextFile(strTempFile, 1, false, 0);
// Grab output from temporary file
strCommandResult = oFile.ReadAll();
oFile.Close();
// Delete the temporary & ftp-command files
oFileSys.DeleteFile(strTempFile, true);
objFSO.DeleteFile(Server.MapPath('ftpCommand' + uniqueNumber + '.ftp'), true);
delete oFileSys;
delete objFSO;
return {
result: strCommandResult.split('\r\n')
};
}
return {
copyTo: copyTo
};
})();
Which results in:
