Nice article steve. I had the same problem a while ago, I did basically the same thing with a command file for the command line ftp with a cmdshell to run it, works ok but not very clean. in the end, I got a programmer to whip up a com routine for ftp, the beauty of this is that I can specify a specific port which the command line http://FTP.exe does not allow, therefore, making it very restrictive under some circumstances.