FTP gotcha - how do you ignore a socket error?

[Jim Ault]

Thanks Dave, and the anwer that works for now
on socketError theID, theError
  close socket theID
end socketError
...in order to be sure, and the action loop is 20+ seconds
When I tighten the event loop, I may have to get more creative.

Jim

On 9/21/05 1:11 PM, "Dave Cragg" <dcragg at lacscentre.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> On 21 Sep 2005, at 20:44, Jim Ault wrote:
> 
>> I am working on two trusted computers, getting a successful file
>> transfer,
>> but then the following error on the Windows client (Mac OSX Jaguar
>> ftp host)
>> about 8 seconds later
>> -------------------
>> 226 Transfer complete.
>> QUIT
>> 221-
>> Data traffic for this session was 1700 bytes in 1 file.socket error
>> 24.234.190.204:21|6930
>> Error 10053 on socket
>>     Total traffic for this session was 2342 bytes in 1 transfer.221
>> Thank you for using the FTP service on localhost.
>> CLOSED 24.234.190.204:21|6930
>> CLOSED 24.234.190.204:21|6930
>> -----------------------------
>> 
>> Client > Win XP Pro, McAffee, Rev 2.5.1  (plus compiled versions)
>> 
>> Firewall FTP 21-22 was tried as [ON + OFF = same error] [McAffee]
>> compiled app was registered as trusted source [McAffee]
>> host static IP registered as trusted IP [McAffee]
>> 
>> The transfer is good, and I would like to just ignore the error and
>> let a
>> loop continue about once every 60 seconds.
> 
> I think you can probably ignore it. (The 226 line signals the end of
> the transaction.) But things like that make me nervous. :-)
> 
> "Error 10053 on socket" is a Windows error, and means something on
> the local computer caused the connection to close.
> 
> Something you might want to check. The ftp QUIT command is issued by
> libUrl if, after a transaction completes, there is no activity on the
> socket for 15 seconds. In case there is something on your machine
> that doesn't like the socket remaining unused for so long, you can
> change the delay to less than 15 seconds by using libUrlSetFTPStopTime.
> 
>     libUrlSetFTPStopTime 2 ## put somewhere before your ftp call
> 
> This will reduce the delay to 2 seconds.
> 
> You might want to see if it makes a difference.
> 
> Cheers
> Dave
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