Web services over FTP

Hi all

I am writing a Pocket PC app (Compact Framework V2) that talks to a web service. However, the machine I am talking to is going to have port 80 closed down, the only port I will have access to is 21 which currently has an FTP server on it. What I'd like to do is to have the PPC application create its web request but then instead of using HTTP to talk to the server I'd like to save that request to a MemoryStream. I could then zip the data and FTP it to a dedicated folder on the server. A service on the server could extract the request and then post it to the web service locally. Finally I would like to take the response, zip it, put it on the FTP in a dedicated folder for the client to download and then feed into the request as if it had come directly from the server.

Can this be done? If so, does anyone have any URLs, examples, or anything? I've not been able to find anything useful on Google so far.

Thanks

Pete

Is this article helpfu to you ?http://www.lyra.org/pipermail/neon/2002-October/001187.html

you need to embed you http requset into a ftp request and then dis-embed it.. i think you can sure make it out, while maybe it will need some effort :)

a little suggestions:

in this article :http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiphttp.html it is said that: "It's also important to consider all the other XML technologies that can process XML retrieved over HTTP, FTP, or other means." so, i guess we can found a way to impliment xml communication thru FTP .anyway, hope u good luck!