SFTP Write Text File

Demonstrates how to create a new text file on the remote SSH server, append text by calling WriteFileText one or more times, and then close the file.

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'  Important: It is helpful to send the contents of the
'  sftp.LastErrorText property when requesting support.

set sftp = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.SFtp")

'  Any string automatically begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
success = sftp.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Set some timeouts, in milliseconds:
sftp.ConnectTimeoutMs = 5000
sftp.IdleTimeoutMs = 15000

'  Connect to the SSH server.
'  The standard SSH port = 22
'  The hostname may be a hostname or IP address.

hostname = "www.my-ssh-server.com"
port = 22
success = sftp.Connect(hostname,port)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
'  both password-based authenication as well as public-key
'  authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Open a file on the server for writing.
'  "createTruncate" means that a new file is created; if the file already exists, it is opened and truncated.

handle = sftp.OpenFile("myTest.txt","writeOnly","createTruncate")
If (handle = vbNullString ) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Write some text to the file:
success = sftp.WriteFileText(handle,"ansi","abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

success = sftp.WriteFileText(handle,"ansi","1234567890")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

success = sftp.WriteFileText(handle,"ansi","ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

'  Close the file.
success = sftp.CloseHandle(handle)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode(sftp.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"

End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode("Success.") & "</pre>"
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