iOS FTP

[stephen barncard]

"No modern tool that supports FTP does not also support SFTP - except
LiveCode."

and the feature is very conspicuous in its absence, IMHO.

sqb


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Jim sims <sims at ezpzapps.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > --
> >  Richard Gaskin
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