openurl method for inet control and ftp transfer times out?

[thewhip]

VB's openurl help example has code that it says you can just paste into a form that has the appropriate controls, and just run it. It gives me a timed out error. I have tried numerous different ftp sites, and small, and large files. This is suppose to be really easy. What am I missing? I tried both the binary file example and string, neither worked.<br>
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[chiph]

Hi thewhip!<br>
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There's a ton of things that could go wrong. You can eliminate a lot of them from consideration if you are able to prove that you can use the Microsoft ftp command to download files. This would eliminate problems with networking, firewalls, internet connection, etc. etc.<br>
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Chip H.<br>

 

[thewhip]

Chip, thanks for the reply, but I'm a little confused as to what you mean. I am able, with the same connection that I am using from vb, to use netscape to get ftp files. I can also use the inet1.openurl to retrieve html with expected eases. Not ftp though.

 

[VBXL]

Was there a solution to this problem as I am having the same problem

Cheers

VBXL