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Mr_Vball
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May 7, 2008
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Using "\" or "/" in path

  • May 7, 2008
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We have several clients that host our product externally on their website. So therefore, when a change is made to a file we need to FTP it out to their site. The issue I am running into is this. For some clients the remotefile attribute of the cfftp tag needs to be in the format SomeDIR \ anotherDIR \ thefile.xxx but apparently for others I need to use the / instead. If I use the \ for those clients it creates a directory called SomeDIRanotherDIR and puts the file in there, ignoring the \. Why is that? Is that some kind of FTP setting?

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    Dan_Bracuk
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    May 8, 2008
    There is the ever popular cftry/cfcatch.

    Or you can ask them at the same time you ask them what directory the file is supposed to go into.
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    Mr_VballAuthor
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    May 8, 2008
    What about the User_agent variable? Do Unix and/or LINUX have something else in it?
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    Dan_Bracuk
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    May 7, 2008
    It's an operating system thing. Windows uses "\". Unix and Linux use "/".
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    Mr_VballAuthor
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    May 8, 2008
    quote:
    Originally posted by: Dan Bracuk
    It's an operating system thing. Windows uses "\". Unix and Linux use "/".


    I see. Thanks. Being strictly a "windows guy", who knew :)

    So as a follow-up, Is there a way to programatically detect what OS the client is using?
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