Connecting to XML on a FTP?

[SimonJackson]

Our meterology agency provides a number of feeds via their FTP website:

ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDV10750.xml

ftp://ftp2.bom.gov.au/anon/gen/fwo/IDV10753.xml

I tried hooking the 'Poll an External Website for XML' input connector to the above endpoints, but the connector fails to get a response.  

Is there a way to do this within GeoEvent such as adjusting the transport used by the XML input connector?

I understand it could be achieved through scheduling downloading these XML files to a folder and have GeoEvent watch the folder for new files, but was hoping on avoiding another moving part.

[BrianBaldwin]

I was just working on doing something similar, but using a plain text URL to pass a secure FTP connection in as an input... but no luck.

[IngaPlayle]

Hi Simon & Brian, I am looking to do the same thing - pull data from the BoM FTP site to GeoEvent. Did you find a way to do without downloading the xml files?

Any tips would be great, we have only just installed a dev version of GeoEvent & I am trying to demonstrate it's use to the business.

Inga

[EarlMedina]

Just in case someone finds this post looking for an answer...

I'm actually working with someone on this very thing. At the moment, there's no out-the-box solution since GeoEvent doesn't come packaged with an FTP transport. I believe an Enhancement was logged for this functionality, however.

I understand it could be achieved through scheduling downloading these XML files to a folder and have GeoEvent watch the folder for new files, but was hoping on avoiding another moving part.

Unfortunately, this is exactly what you'll need to do.