iOS FTP

[Jim sims]

Quite right Richard!

You would find my name on that voting list.

Sftp

Seems like more than twenty years now...maybe it has been.

Ftp
Sftp
Safe file transfer

Search the lists and i bet you find sftp a lot.

sims

On Saturday, August 31, 2013, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> sims wrote:
>
>  I found an example of using ftp on iOS and tested it but I keep getting an
>> "invalid server" error as the result.
>>
>> In the simulator I am using the equivalent of the following
>>
>>          *put* "12345" into url ("ftp://administrator:**password@
>> ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/**aaazzz11.txt <ftp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/aaazzz11.txt>
>> ")
>>
>> Can I use ftp with the iOS simulator?
>>
>
> As you've found, it's possible.
>
> But keep in mind that FTP sends your login and password credentials in
> plain text, so anyone intercepting your traffic can get full access to the
> files on your server.
>
> A request for SFTP has been submitted to the RQCC many years ago, and back
> when we had voting it was the most popular item there:
> <http://quality.runrev.com/**show_bug.cgi?id=6405<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6405>
> >
>
> No modern tool that supports FTP does not also support SFTP - except
> LiveCode.
>
> IMNSHO this represented a critical security exposure for LiveCode
> developers, since without SFTP some may be tempted to use FTP, which is
> conveniently supported but potentially very dangerous.
>
> For anything requiring security I've had to use HTTPS as a workaround,
> putting a CGI on the server to accept POST data for file uploads, which has
> worked well for the relatively small files I transfer (extra bonus points
> that HTTP is generally faster than FTP).
>
> Still, it would be wonderful if we could have SFTP supported in the
> engine/libURL, as RunRev has already done with HTTPS.
>
> Without it, we flirt with danger.
>
> File transfer may not be as sexy as optimized image tiles or graphic
> gradients, but it's no less valuable than anything added to the engine
> since the request for SFTP was submitted in 2008.
>
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