FTP tab name {site name}

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1

I am a programmer and currently doing a lot of testing with code that hits FTP sites. In test, I am running Filezilla Server on my local machine to test before I hit customer FTP sites.

Here is my issue. I have multiple test users as if they are from different companies, each resolving to different locations on my test system. I hit each of them via FTP using LOCALHOST. I often open two or three of them and on Opus the tabs all say "localhost". I had been using Filezilla Client, where the tabs show "{connection name} - {user}@localhost". On Opus I know I can manually change a tab name, but if I close it and reopen it, the tab reverts.

I would like to find a way to have Opus show the "site name" on the tab? Showing the host address, when using "localhost" doesn't cut it.

2

Tabs can be manually renamed (or prefixed), or have their names changed via buttons (e.g. a button to go to a site and apply a prefix to the current tab at the same time).

For doing it automatically, something like this script may be what you want:

3

For a script to work, it would have to access the FTP setup information. If there is a script already available to perform this function, I'd be happy to try it.

Until then, this is what I am looking at, which is less than optimal:

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The thing that's funny is once I open one of these tabs, I have no reference to which FTP site it is connected to. I see "localhost" and the contents. I think this warrants a feature request. Within either Settings / Preferences ... or within the site properties ... add something to allow for more descriptive tab names on FTP connection.

4

This script will rename a tab that came from an FTP address book entry to the name of the FTP entry. Not sure if it's exactly what you want but it should give you a starting point.

FTPSiteTabNamer.vbs.txt (1.5 KB)

The script code looks like this:

option explicit

' FTPSiteTabNamer
' 

' This is a script for Directory Opus.
' See https://www.gpsoft.com.au/DScripts/redirect.asp?page=scripts for development information.



' Called by Directory Opus to initialize the script
Function OnInit(initData)
	initData.name = "FTPSiteTabNamer"
	initData.version = "1.0"
	initData.copyright = ""
'	initData.url = "https://resource.dopus.com/viewforum.php?f=35"
	initData.desc = ""
	initData.default_enable = true
	initData.min_version = "12.0"
End Function

' Called after a new folder is read in a tab
Function OnAfterFolderChange(afterFolderChangeData)
	if afterFolderChangeData.result then

		Dim cmd, strName
		Set cmd = DOpus.Create.Command
		cmd.SetSourceTab(afterFolderChangeData.tab)

		if Left(afterFolderChangeData.tab.path, 11) = "ftp://SITE=" then
		
			strName = """" & URLDecode(Mid(afterFolderChangeData.tab.path, 12, InStr(afterFolderChangeData.tab.path, "?") - 12)) & """"
			
		end if
		
		cmd.RunCommand("Go TABNAME " & strName)

	end if
End Function

' from https://dwarf1711.blogspot.com/2007/10/vbscript-urldecode-function.html
Function URLDecode(ByVal str)
 Dim intI, strChar, strRes
 str = Replace(str, "+", " ")
 For intI = 1 To Len(str)
  strChar = Mid(str, intI, 1)
  If strChar = "%" Then
   If intI + 2 < Len(str) Then
    strRes = strRes & Chr(CLng("&H" & Mid(str, intI+1, 2)))
     intI = intI + 2
   End If
  Else
   strRes = strRes & strChar
  End If
 Next
 URLDecode = strRes
End Function
5

Awesome! ... works