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Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) [message #40637 is a reply to message #40593]

Thu, 19 August 2004 17:56

Wayne Landsman
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Registered: January 1997

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> ----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Cool" <andrew.cool@dsto.defence.gov.au>

> "R.G. Stockwell" <noemail@please.com> wrote in message
news:<kC6Tc.373$7A1.21311@news.uswest.net>...
>>
>> So, has anyone used IDL to open (as a client) some type of connection to
>> a server, and list files, download selected files, etc? Any problems
that
>> you've run into, is this a viable solution to accessing data remotely?
>> I could just put a directory listing on a web page, but I like the idea
of
>> a data analyzing widget that the user could run, to create figures, do
simple
>> processing, etc.

> You can certainly use Sockets to ftp data from a remote site.
> I've done this to read Topex data from
>
ftp://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/sea_surface_height/topex_posei don/mgdrb/data/
>

Besides Andrew Cool's suggestion you can also look at Dominic Zarro's OO
implementation of IDL sockets at
http://orpheus.nascom.nasa.gov/~zarro/idl/sockets.html

And for simple http access from a Web server you could try my program
webget.pro at http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/pro/sockets/webget.pro

--Wayne Landsman

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		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: David Fanning on Mon, 16 August 2004 19:17
		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: andrew.cool on Mon, 16 August 2004 18:06
		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: R.G. Stockwell on Fri, 13 August 2004 12:40
		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: Randall Skelton on Fri, 13 August 2004 10:37
		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: R.G. Stockwell on Tue, 17 August 2004 10:25
		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: Wayne Landsman on Thu, 19 August 2004 17:56
		Re: web/ftp access in IDL (and in VM) By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 16 August 2004 22:23

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