[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

[Richard Gaskin]

FTP is a great protocol for open-ended traversal of remote file 
repositories.

For just transferring a file, scp or rsync with shared keys is a 
one-liner via shell(), and will be faster in addition to being simpler 
to code.

--
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems



> matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de matthias_livecode_150811 at m-r-d.de
> Wed Mar 24 18:51:56 EDT 2021
>
> what i forgot
> 
> my previous overview
>>>> Server scheme         use ssl            is protocol
>>>> ftp://                           false                  ftp
>>>> ftp://.                          true                  ftp over SSL explicit
>>>> ftps://                          true                    ftp over SSL implicit
> 
> is how tsNet needs the server url
> 
> 
> -
> Matthias Rebbe
> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
> 
>> Am 24.03.2021 um 23:44 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> I've just had a quick look at the documentation of Fetch. 
>> It seems Fetch uses ftps:// for both  FTPeS (FTP over SSL explicit)  and FTPS (FTP over SSL implicit). But it depends on the port number you have entered. 
>> If you keep port 21 then FTPS (FTP over SSL implicit) is used. 
>> If you set the port to 990 then Fetch uses FTPS (FTP over SSL implicit).
>> 
>> Btw. it is not granted that an FTP server supports all modes.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Matthias
>> 
>> -
>> Matthias Rebbe
>> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
>> 
>>> Am 24.03.2021 um 23:25 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>>> 
>>> On 3/24/21 4:02 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
>>>> Server scheme         use ssl            is protocol
>>>> ftp://                           false                  ftp
>>>> ftp://.                          true                  ftp over SSL explicit
>>>> ftps://                          true                    ftp over SSL implicit
>>> 
>>> Thanks. Fetch documentation says that FTP with TLS/SSL URLs should start with "ftps" so now I'm not sure what it's doing.
>>> 
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