Re: FTP Active Mode - Can't Get Server To Connect after PORT Command

microsoft.public.dotnet.framework

4 Oct 2005 7:03 AM

Chad Z. Hower a.k.a. Kudzu [msft]

> No built in support for FTP (I know its comming) and getting management to
> approve a software purchase is a pain, modifying and existing FTP class
> that
> works great in passive mode seemed a reasonable thing to do. So any

FTP is not a simple protocol. Most code snippets you find on the net are very incomplete and do not hold up under many common scenarios.

You may choose to continue hacking at it, but it's my experience that it will only work in limited cases unless you have a very good code base. You might consider something open source thatâ€™s also mature such as Indy, http://www.indyproject.org. Note - I am involved with this project, so there is a natural bias. Id list other mature FTP implementations as well, but I'm not aware of any other such ones that are also free.

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