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EDI Transmission Types Every Trading Partner Should Know

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

In order to conduct Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) transactions with a trading partner, businesses need a way of transmitting their EDI messages. Today, we take a look at the most widely used EDI transmission types, their main characteristics, advantages, and disadvantages.

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Topics: SFTP, FTPS, AS2, FTP

How To Use A Windows FTP Client For Secure Downloads

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Despite FTP's vulnerabilities, many Windows users still use FTP clients for transferring files over the Internet. If you really have to keep using that archaic file transfer protocol, at least do it securely. Here's what we suggest when using a Windows FTP Client for secure downloads.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, FTP

Uploading a 2nd File Only If The 1st Succeeds - Using 1 Trigger

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

In our previous post, we showed you how to use two triggers to upload a second file only if the first upload succeeded. Here's a shorter way to do it.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, SFTP, FTPS

What Is Two Factor (2 Step) Authentication? | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Passwords (even strong ones) can sometimes fall into the wrong hands. To minimize the risk of granting access to an impersonator who might have managed to obtain someone else's username and password, you might need to employ what is known as two factor authentication (2FA). What is it?

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP

Forwarding Files from FTP to an SFTP Server with JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

JSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of AnyClient 4.2. This release includes several new features and enhancements, highlights of which include:

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, SFTP, Triggers, FTP

What Is A Key Exchange?

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Before any files can be securely sent over protocols like FTPS, HTTPS, and SFTP, the two communicating parties must engage in a key exchange. What's that?

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, key exchange

SCP vs SFTP - 5 Key Comparisons | JSCAPE Managed File Transfer

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

SFTP vs. SCP Overview

Both SCP and SFTP run over TCP port 22 by default. Both are also used for transferring files. So are they one and the same? If not, what's the difference between the two? In this post, we compare them in terms of qualities essential to file transfers: speed, security, functionality, support for large files, and support for resuming transfers. Let's see which protocol has the advantage.

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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, file transfer, SCP

How to Use Public Key Authentication with Partners | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview

Several months ago, we published a tutorial crafted to help network/server administrators prepare trading partners for SFTP automation. That article lacked one important feature found in SFTP - public key authentication. So today, we've devoted one full tutorial that focuses on that.

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Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, Business Process Automation, Tutorials, Secure File Transfer, SFTP

Using sftp -r

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

While using SFTP on the command line, there might be instances when you'll want to upload or download an entire directory and all the the files and subdirectories underneath it. To accomplish that, you'll need the recursive argument -r.

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Topics: SFTP

12 File Transfer Protocols for Businesses | JSCAPE

Updated by John Carl Villanueva on

Overview: File Transfer Protocols for Businesses

Still wondering which file transfer protocol is right for your business? Here are a dozen you can choose from. Below this list, we've also added brief descriptions of these data transfer types to make your choice easier.

  1. FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
  2. HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
  3. FTPS (FTP over SSL)
  4. HTTPS (HTTP over SSL)
  5. SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol)
  6. SCP (Secure Copy)
  7. WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)
  8. WebDAVS
  9. TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol)
  10. AS2 (Applicability Statement 2)
  11. OFTP (Odette File Transfer Protocol)
  12. AFTP (Accelerated File Transfer Protocol)
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Topics: Secure File Transfer, SFTP, FTPS, Accelerated File Transfer, transfer protocols

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