List of FTP clients that support blind APPE

[chrisgeary]

Hi all,

I'm looking for FTP clients that will support resuming uploads to a blind drop-box FTP server. So far I've found CoreFTP will do it but I'm drawing a blank on others. I've tested Filezilla, FireFTP, FTPCommander and CuteFTP.

Anyone know of another client that might work?

Chris

 

[davidh6781]

what about flashfxp unsure as i don;t do this sort of ftp-ing.

http://www.flashfxp.com/

 

[chrisgeary]

Thanks. This client doesn't support it. I'm having a hard time finding another that does.

 

[aligibbs]

What the hell is appe?

 

[photon]

Nor me, David, but Total Commander looks suitable: http://www.ghisler.com

http://www.ghisler.com/efaqftp.htm#noresume

 

[James Pardon]

I've tested out a ton of FTP apps and found FlashFXP to be the best, huge range of options. It does support blind APPE. From their website :

Use APPE to resume uploads
By default FlashFXP uses REST followed by STOR for resuming uploads, when checked APPE is used instead. This can also be adjusted per-site.

 

[chrisgeary]

Ooh I missed that... testing again...

APPE is the append command.

 

[aligibbs]

Ahh, makes lot more sense now

 

[chrisgeary]

bah, still can't get it to do anything other than STOR.

 

[James Pardon]

Check in the individual site settings as well, I think there's a general option and you can change it per site as well. Not in front of PC now to test

 

[chrisgeary]

yeah I've set both to APPE. If you get a moment, you can try a test at ftp.riverbed.com/incoming
Maybe I'm doing something wrong. I've noticed that it is not sufficient to abort the transfer, the client will continue until the data is complete, so I've been using TCPView to reset the connection.

 

[James Pardon]

Will give it a go in a mo and see if it does it my end. The stop button in flashfxp is a bit strange, if you press it once it'll stop the que but not the file, but if you click it a few more times it force quits the transfer.

 

[James Pardon]

Right, tried it. I couldn't get it to resume at all, with anonymous login I don't think the FTP has permission for file overwrite.

Tried same ftp settings on one of my ftp sites and it works with APPE.

Don't think it's a client issue, but account permission on the FTP.

**just read you've done it on CoreFTP, so I'm stumped?!***

 

[chrisgeary]

I've asked our IT teams if they will permit list rights, that would solve the issue completely. Even though CoreFTP worked, it works on the principle that it remembers where it stopped. As it cannot list, it cannot append if the application is restarted and if the file is removed, it will start writing the file from where it thought it left off, resulting in a partial file write.

Its a pants solution and LIST privileges would solve it. Thanks for verifying my findings James