How to copy files to a secure web folder

[Chrisbu]

We supply VB applications that link to backend access databases to clients that are not generally computer literate. Some times I need to get a copy of their backend tables to help them with problems but unfortunately they don’t know how to use file explorer or zip files etc. What I would like to do is to write some VB code that I can attach to a button in the front end app that would copy the backend database to a folder on our web site automatically. I could then pull it down. Ideally the folder would be password protected (because some of their data is sensitive) and the name and password embedded in the VB code so that it would be invisible to them.

[ray326]

"Web folders" are Microsoft's WebDAV emplimentation. You'd need to write or find an HTTP WebDAV client. It would probably be easier to shell FTP to do it. A third possibility would be to put a form-based upload handler on your server and do an HTTP client to post the files to that.