The File Transfer Protocol (FTP) and Your Firewall / Network Address Translation (NAT) Router / Load-Balancing Router Wikipedia: File Transfer Protocol Active FTP vs. Passive FTP, a Definitive Explanation The FTP2.DetermineSettings Method Issue when an FTP Server is behind a NAT Router FTP Blockers – TCP/IP Port Filtering and Anti-Virus Deep Inspection Firewalls and Passive FTP (also known as Stateful […]
Question: I had a question regarding the ChangeRemoteDir method, however. Is it case sensitive? If so, is there any way to force the method to ignore the case and just check for the correct spelling? Also, do I have to call ChangeRemoteDir for each folder level or can I, for example, call ChangeRemoteDir(“folder1/folder2/folder3”)? Answer: The case sensitivity depends on the […]
Question: We have the need to get the file time properties of files located on a ftp site. Currently when I call GetCreateTime, GetLastAccessTime or GetLastModifiedTime I only get the hour and minute of the file (and all three methods return the same value). I also need to get the Seconds in addition to the hour and minute. How is […]
Question: I need to connect to an ftp server and have to use the following command: ftp://username:password@hosname That means I’m not able to use the standard connection (first connect to host, then enter username and then password). Is this possible using the Chilkat FTP2 component? Answer: Yes. There are a number of different FTP proxy methods used by different types […]
The FTP2 component’s SyncLocalTree method downloads an entire directory tree from an FTP server to the local filesystem. There are several modes of operation: mode=0: Download all files mode=1: Download all files that do not exist on the local filesystem. mode=2: Download newer or non-existant files. mode=3: Download only newer files. If a file does not already exist on the […]
Question: We are making a timed call to an FTP folder to check for new files. Once a file appears, we download it. Is it possible to keep the session open between these timed calls, or should it be closed and re-opened every time we check? The interval is very small 2 seconds, but may run for days at a […]
The Chilkat FTP2 ActiveX has events for progress monitoring. The events may also be used to abort an FTP upload/download, or to skip files and/or directories. These are the events in Visual FoxPro terms: PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_PutProgress(percentDone AS Number) AS VOID; PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_GetProgress(percentDone AS Number) AS VOID; PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_AbortCheck(abortFlag AS Number) AS VOID; PROCEDURE _IChilkatFtp2Events_BeginDownloadFile(filePath AS String, skipFlag AS Number) AS […]
Question: Files on the FTP server contain Unicode characters (Chinese, Japanese, Russian, etc.). How do I get the correct filenames in my (Chilkat FTP2) client? Answer: It is very dependent on the capabilities of the FTP server. Many servers are incapable of sending Unicode directory listings. If an FTP server supports Unicode directory listings, it will use utf-8 (which is […]