Cold Fusion FTP Clients

[sknyppy]

I'm looking into developing a FTP client for our web-hosting customers to upload their files into personal directories on the web server.

Problem how can I read client directories to allow multiple files to be selected and transferred to the web server in a single transfer? I don't want the user to have to select and ftp one file at a time.

Is this beyond the ability of Cold Fusion and requiring the use of Java?

Thanks,
Dave

 

[SidianConsulting]

Yep, you hit the nail on the head. To get any decent multi-file uploading functionality, you have to go the route of Java applets or ActiveX controls. Why not just set up an ftp directory and permissions for the users? It would be much easier. At one time I was looking into Ipswitch's ftp server (forget what it's called). We might still use it for a project down the road. The great thing about it is is that you can authenticate the users in many ways, my favorite being from a database. This makes it easier to bypass creating machine accounts. You can also manipulate these accounts with ColdFusion through ODBC instead of using a desktop interface.

-Tek