"Leonard Chung" <Leonard Ch***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to create an authenticated session to a remote FTP server using
> the FtpWebClient class which takes a URI. Problem is, the URI doesn't seem
> to
> accept standard ftp://username:password@server/ URIs and gives me the
> following error when I try to get the propery serverUri.uri from below:
>
> {"Invalid URI: A port was expected because of there is a colon (':')
> present
> but the port could not be parsed."} System.FormatException
> {System.UriFormatException}
>
> Does anybody know what's going on?
>
>            UriBuilder serverUri = new UriBuilder();
>            serverUri.Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeFtp;
>            serverUri.Host = "servername.com";
>            serverUri.UserName = "username";
>            serverUri.Password = "password";
>
> Thanks,
>
> Leonard

"Mubashir Khan" wrote:

> why dont you provide port as well ........
>
> "Leonard Chung" <Leonard Ch***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:67416D68-EB9F-4E2B-BFC9-7A0E1AD1216C@microsoft.com...
> > I'm trying to create an authenticated session to a remote FTP server using
> > the FtpWebClient class which takes a URI. Problem is, the URI doesn't seem
> > to
> > accept standard ftp://username:password@server/ URIs and gives me the
> > following error when I try to get the propery serverUri.uri from below:
> >
> > {"Invalid URI: A port was expected because of there is a colon (':')
> > present
> > but the port could not be parsed."} System.FormatException
> > {System.UriFormatException}
> >
> > Does anybody know what's going on?
> >
> >            UriBuilder serverUri = new UriBuilder();
> >            serverUri.Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeFtp;
> >            serverUri.Host = "servername.com";
> >            serverUri.UserName = "username";
> >            serverUri.Password = "password";
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Leonard
>
>
>

"Vadym Stetsyak" wrote:

> Hello, Leonard!
>
> Stange, I can't reproduce that exception, the code I used
> UriBuilder urlB = new UriBuilder();
> urlB.Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeFtp;
> urlB.Host = "servername.com";
> urlB.UserName = "username";
> urlB.Password = "password";
>
> the result is
> urlB.Uri.ToString() -> "ftp://username:passw***@servername.com/"
>
>  LC> I'm trying to create an authenticated session to a remote FTP server
> LC> using
> LC> the FtpWebClient class which takes a URI. Problem is, the URI
> LC> doesn't seem to
> LC> accept standard ftp://username:password@server/ URIs and gives me
> LC> the
> LC> following error when I try to get the propery serverUri.uri from
> LC> below:
>
> LC> {"Invalid URI: A port was expected because of there is a colon (':')
> LC> present
> LC> but the port could not be parsed."} System.FormatException
> LC> {System.UriFormatException}
>
> LC> Does anybody know what's going on?
>
> LC>             UriBuilder serverUri = new UriBuilder();
> LC>             serverUri.Scheme = Uri.UriSchemeFtp;
> LC>             serverUri.Host = "servername.com";
> LC>             serverUri.UserName = "username";
> LC>             serverUri.Password = "password";
>
> LC> Thanks,
>
> LC> Leonard
>
> --
> Regards, Vadym Stetsyak
> www: http://vadmyst.blogspot