Uploading to a remote server from within Stata

[Daniel Feenberg]

It is well documented how to read a .dta or .raw dataset into Stata from a website address. Is there any way to upload a dataset to a remote server? We have complete control of the server and can likely adapt to any routable protocol Stata supports. Currently our -taxsim- program writes a temporary file and calls out to the Windows ftp client to do the upload. The call-out is problematic so I would like to stay within Stata. I have been told that Stata supports RESTful interaction, but haven't been able to find any documentation, perhaps there is an alternative?

Daniel Feenberg

[Jesse Wursten]

Very interested in this as well - only solution I've found so far is to go through Windows Powershell, which is builtin on all semi-recent windows computers (starting from Windows XP / Server 2008).