FTP Read Through Firewall

[nealpederson]

I need to be able to read a simple text file on the internet on computers
that might have a firewall. I can easily do this using Data Socket on my
computer that has a DSL modem with firewall but when I try the same program
on computers that have a different type of firewall it doesn't work. I've
tried to use Active-X to control a web browser and have it save the file but
I can't figure out how to do this without the user interaction. Any ideas?

Neal Pederson, President, VI Control Systems

1923 Mendius Lane, Los Alamos, NM 87544

TEL: (505) 662-1461, FAX: (866) 422-2931

np@vicontrols.com, www.vicontrols.com

[Micah_Boyd]

If you can use an activeX web browser to look at the file, I would suggest that you find a win32 compile of "wget" (google for it) and use labview's "run external command".

Wget will take command line arguments to save URLs without user interaction. It has worked for me in the past.

Good luck.

Micah