FTP or HTTP to upload files through ASP.NET?

[RayAll]

I am using HTTP to upload files to a database ,I'm just curious if I can do
it through FTP too and what would be the advantages and disadvantages of
these two method?

Thanks

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

FTP is a bit more reliable and efficient, especially for larger files.
It also allows finer grained programatic control.
However, it tends not to be quite as user friendly.

 

[RayAll]

But there is another opinin saying that:

HTTP gives you direct access to the stream from within asp.net so its easy
to work with he binary object

What do you think about this?

 

[RayAll]

What do you mean by reliability?

Thanks

FTP is a bit more reliable and efficient, especially for larger files.
It also allows finer grained programatic control.
However, it tends not to be quite as user friendly.

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

HTTP transfers seem to be a bit more susceptible to glitches from my
experience.
Also, with advanced FTP functions you can resume interupted file transfers.

 

[Steve C. Orr [MVP, MCSD]]

You can get direct access to the stream for FTP transfers too.
You'll have to write some custom code, or reuse some that's already freely
available on the internet such as these:
http://www.mentalis.org/classlib/index.php?category=Internet+&+Networks
http://www.codeproject.com/dotnet/dotnetftp.asp

ASP.NET 2.0 will have improved support for FTP so less code will be
necessary.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

From my experience, I see the opposite. I once had to write a service that
downloads documents automatically at intervals from an FTP server, and
handling all of the errors in the process took me weeks to write. FTP does
no parity checking, uses no checksums, and dropped packets are a regular
occurrence.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
Neither a follower nor a lender be.

 

[RayAll]

Resuming the file transfer thrugh an ASP.NET application????



Can you guide me to some related docs in this context?



Thanks