Java Glossary : NetLoad

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A utility that completely automates uploading files to your website. It automatically detects which files have changed and uploads them with FTP. If you have several websites, it automatically uploads each in turn. It is fairly difficult to set up, but once it is going it is just one click to handle the updates. I recommend it. You may need help from an FTP guru to get it going, but thereafter, you should have no trouble. For smooth sailing, make sure your clock and your ISP's clock stay in sync. You still need a traditional FTP tool like FTP Voyager for diagnosing and fixing things when the automated process goes off the rails.

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Where Netload Squirrels Information

Netload puts a *.nlx text file in the directory where your local files are. It contains the names of the directories and files it has already uploaded, or files that appeared on the server by other channels, except ignored files, along with their dates and lengths. It is indented by directory level depth to make it easier to see the structure. This way it does not necessarily have to ask the server what it already has.

For efficiency reasons, it does not update this file as it uploads. It waits till it is done. Thus if anything goes wrong, it will be out of sync with reality, and you manually need to request a server refresh.

In c:\winnt in put several small netload.* text files. NETLOAD.IGN is the ignore list. Note this is global for all sites. NETLOAD.FTP contains the binary configuration information about each site. NETLOAD.INI contains key1, key2 and key3, your purchase authorisation keys. It might be wise to back these files up.

It sometimes refuses to create new directories. To get it started, you must do your initial upload with some other program that is capable of creating directories.

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