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Links to FTP Sites
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| FTP is an abbreviation for "File Transfer Protocol". FTP is used to send and receive files across the internet. You can add a hyperlink to a document that will automatically download a file to a user's computer when clicked. Such hyperlinks are nearly identical to regular hyperlinks, with the only difference being that the usual "http://" is replaced by "ftp://" in the referenced URL.
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| Note that many FTP servers (including Unix-based systems) use case-sensitive names for files and directories.
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| The following example shows how to use htmlHyperLink to create a hyperlink that lets a user easily download a demo of DC Micro Development's Crusher! Data Compression Toolkit.
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| #include <stdio.h>
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| #include <stdlib.h>
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| #include <dcmicro/htmlpp/htmlpp.h>
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| int main( void )
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| {
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| htmlCgi server ;
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| htmlPage page( "html++ example application" ) ;
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| // Create a hyperlink to the file to be downloaded,
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| // specifying "ftp://" to indicate the FTP protocol.
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| htmlHyperLink demo ;
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| demo.URL("ftp://ftp.dcmicro.com/pub/crusher/crdemow.exe");
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| // Add the "Click here" message to the hyperlink, then
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| // add the hyperlink to the page.
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| page << ( demo << "Click here" )
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| << " to download a demo of the Crusher! Data "
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| "Compression Toolkit." ;
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| server << page ;
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| return 0 ;
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| }
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| When executed, the above program produces the following HTML output:
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| Content-Type: text/html
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| <HTML>
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| <HEAD>
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| <TITLE>html++ example application</TITLE>
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| </HEAD>
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| <BODY>
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| <A HREF="ftp://ftp.dcmicro.com/pub/crusher/crdemow.exe">Click here</A> to download a demo of the Crusher! Data Compression Toolkit.
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| </BODY>
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| </HTML>
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| When the hyperlink is clicked, the user's browser will present a window prompting the user to save the file locally on their hard drive:
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