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Topics: File Transfer Clients, FTP

New FTP Commands? Remove Directory All, Directory Size, Available Space

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.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP

New FTP Command: RANGe for Specifying Byte Ranges

Standard FTP already has the REST command, which allows the starting point of a file transfer to be specified:

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP

New FTP Working Group at IETF

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.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, File Transfer Clients, FTP

Quick Tip: Official FTP Command Registry

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! :)

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP

New FTP Command: HOST for Virtual Hosts

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.

Topics: JSCAPE MFT, Managed File Transfer, FTP

Email Factory for .NET 2.4.0 Released

JSCAPE is pleased to announce the release of Email Factory for .NET 2.4.0

Topics: News, FTP