How SFTP and FTP Are Different Protocols SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) and FTP (File Transfer Protocol) may both be used for file transfers, but they are fundamentally different protocols in their design, security mechanisms, and underlying technologies. 1. SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol): Not an Extension of FTP: SFTP is not related to FTP. It’s a completely different protocol […]
Question: I have a vendor that wants me to send text files to their SFTP server. They want me to use SFTP to send the files. I have other vendors to which I use SFTP to send files but they use a password for authentication. I use Chilkat libraries to do the SFTP to those vendors. This vendor has supplied […]
Question: How can I set the default permissions of every file uploaded without the need to change the file permissions on the server after the upload? I want all uploaded files to have permissions 664. Answer: On most servers, the default file permissions should already be 664. To explicitly set the permissions to be used for uploaded files, then the […]