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Free FTP Client Released
Updated by Van Glass on
Topics: File Transfer Clients, FTP
New FTP Commands? Remove Directory All, Directory Size, Available Space
Updated by Anthony Bryan on
Streamlined FTP Command Extensions is a proposal for 5 new FTP commands. I stress the word proposal, because it seems to have been abandoned, and would not progress to Internet Standard without a good deal of effort. That said, there was a decent amount of interest in at least some of the commands. I'm going to quote liberally from it for some of the descriptions.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP
New FTP Command: RANGe for Specifying Byte Ranges
Updated by Anthony Bryan on
Standard FTP already has the REST command, which allows the starting point of a file transfer to be specified:
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP
New FTP Working Group at IETF
Updated by Anthony Bryan on
FTP is quite a stable protocol. It's been used for nearly 4 decades to transfer files. FTP is defined in a series of RFCs (Internet Standards or specifications that describe how to implement the protocol) which are published by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a standards developing organization.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, File Transfer Clients, FTP
Quick Tip: Official FTP Command Registry
Updated by Anthony Bryan on
Many different specifications (RFCs) over the long history of FTP describe its official implementation. FTP is about 40 years old, but there are about 10 "newer" specifications written over the last 25 years that implementors need to take into account, only some of which are linked to each other. You might not find them, even if you know what you're looking for! :)
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP
New FTP Command: HOST for Virtual Hosts
Updated by Anthony Bryan on
FTP originated at a time before virtual hosting, where multiple servers are hosted on a single IP address but with different domain names. On the Internet, multiple domain names may resolve to a single IP address.
Read MoreTopics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP
Email Factory for .NET 2.4.0 Released
Updated by Mohammad Jawwad on