Please explain some more...

1) this asp.NET web application is being hosted on the same machine, some other machine on your LAN or on the public Internet?

2) the proxy server you are referring about, is it a proxy server on your network, or is it pointing locally to your machine?

I am running a .bat file that calls an ftp server and references the commands using a .txt file. Everything is working well.

My problem is when the built in windows FTP client tries to download a file from the ftp server using the get command, if the file does not exist on the server, it wipes out the file that is locally on my C: drive and leaves me with a blank file.

I must always keep the field headers in this file...