OT: ftp enhancement utility??

[Boaz Bezborodko]

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> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 10:26:45 -0700 From: Bill Campbell 
> <bill at celestial.com> Subject: Re: Filepro-list Digest, Vol 78, Issue 3 
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com Message-ID: 
> <20100702172645.GB26090 at ayn.mi.celestial.com> Content-Type: 
> text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Fri, Jul 02, 2010, Boaz Bezborodko wrote:
>> >John,
>> >
>> >Depending on the direction you're going wget can work great or is 
>> >difficult to make work at all.  Wget is usually fine for downloading, 
>> >but doesn't work with secure FTP (FTPS) if you have to pass commands.  
>> >(I sometimes have to delete a file I just downoaded from a customers' 
>> >mailbox.)  It is even more difficult to upload information to a secure 
>> >FTP.  For that I use cURL.  I got a system working with cURL that my 
>> >customer's tech didn't think was possible with a Windows-based command 
>> >line program.
>>     
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> If one needs secure ftp, sftp is good and it's a normal part of
> the openssh package.  It works nicely with FileZilla as well.
>
> Bill
In this case I was going into their system which was FTPS, not SFTP.  
FileZilla can access the files, but I needed to be able to control the 
operations from within Filepro.


Boaz