# Transfering Data

**URL:** <https://forums.digi.com/t/transfering-data/11135>\
**Category:** Rabbit\
**Created:** [October 31, 2009, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/transfering-data/11135 "2009-10-31T10:30:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pendragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c0e974/32.png) [@Pendragon](https://forums.digi.com/u/Pendragon)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2009, 10:30am UTC](https://forums.digi.com/t/transfering-data/11135/1 "2009-10-31T10:30:37Z")

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What would be the best way to transfer a string of data I collect from sensors on the serial port to a server?  
I’ve tried the URL append technique, similar to a HTML POST, but my site is on a shared server and I can’t use that IP address.  
Which is odd - I can FTP a file to it. However, I don’t want to transfer a file. I just want to send a string a characters. Sounds like it should be easy. But!  
Ideas welcome - there must be bundles of folks collecting data from instruments and sending it up to a server.: