So I'm trying to simulate an mget using FtpWebRequest. It is pretty straightforward and working. Since wildcards are not supported for getting files, I do a directory, then parse out the file names, and iteratively do gets. All works fine.

Now for the quandry...

I don't want to establish a new FTP session for each file, but that is what the GetResponse does. I was hoping to create one FTP session, and do iterative gets, then close the session. It seems like the object I have to build to do a single get that has credentials and all, will ONLY establish an FTP session, get one file, and close it. I don't see a (easy?) way to open a connection and reuse it using the FtpWebRequest, and if I were to do what i want, I'd have ot start messing with lower level socket programming to pool the connection and reuse it.

Help? Or just confirm that I have to do it the way I have been unless I want to do socket programming?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Have you tried setting KeepAlive=true? (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.ftpwebrequest.keepalive.aspx )

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Have you tried setting KeepAlive=true? (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.net.ftpwebrequest.keepalive.aspx )

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