File grabber from FTP

Question

I have a file that changes every day for my website and I want to make a program that takes it from the FTP server and either downloads it to my phone or my laptop.

How would I go about making this and what code do I use?

Answer 1

A few options not already mentioned:

• If you have access to the ftp server, a cron job could email the file to you each day.
• You could create a web page populated with the data, using jsp, php, or servlet etc. to read the file from disk.
• If you're familiar with rsync, you could simply rsync the file to your laptop
• Sync the file using Dropbox