Re: FTP with VB6.0 vs VB.NET



Peter,

That's some feature list indeed. I stand corrected. Its not my place
to judge your product either, my bad. It sounds from your description
like your Open Source solution rises far above most other free
development solutions levels of completeness.

Keep it up!

AL

On Fri, 29 Jul 2005 17:49:20 -0400, J. Peter Mugaas
<oma00215@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>In article <h5kce199leehsqvgch6jl8mgf16qccntto@xxxxxxx>,
>xLeblancA@xxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
>> And if you want more capabilities/features, great documentation, and
>> prompt support whenever you need it, try Xceed FTP for .NET.
>>
>> It also does SSL and works with many types of FTP servers.
>>
>> http://www.xceedsoft.com/products/ftpnet
>>
>I hate to get into a "mine is better than yours debate" because it's not
>my place to judge your product. Besides, both Commercial and Open
>Source projects each have their own merits and I don't care to go into
>the Commercial vs. Open Source debate. SOmetimes, an Open SOurce
>project may be better than a commercial alternative.
>
>Our FTP client may be more advanced than you would think.
>
>We support quite a number of FTP listing formats. In addition to the
>standard Unix and WIndowsNT FTP Service, Indy's FTP client has parsers
>for the following:
>
>Bull GCOS 7 or Bull DPS 7000
>Bull GCOS 8 or Bull DPS 9000/TA200
>Cisco IOS
>Distinct FTP Server
>EPLF (Easily Parsed List Format)
>HellSoft FTP Server for Novell Netware 3 and 4
>HP 3000 or MPE/iX including HP 3000 with Posix
>IBM AS/400, OS/400
>IBM MVS, OS/390, z/OS
>IBM OS/2
>IBM VM, z/VM
>IBM VSE
>KA9Q or NOS
>Microware OS-9
>Music (Multi-User System for Interactive Computing)
>NCSA FTP Server for MS-DOS (CUTCP)
>Novell Netware
>Novell Netware Print Services for UNIX
>Stratus VOS
>TOPS20
>UniTree
>VMS or VMS (including Multinet, MadGoat, UCX)
>Wind River VxWorks
>WinQVT/Net 3.98.15
>Xecom MicroRTOS
>BayNetworks WfFTP
>Tandem NonStop Guardian
>
>We also may be supporting other FTP listing formats but I've lost track.
>
>But there's far more than simply that. Indy 10's FTP client supports
>the following specifications:
>
>RFC 959 File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
>RFC 1123 Requirements for Internet Hosts -- Application and Support
>RFC 2389 Feature negotiation mechanism for the File Transfer Protocol
>RFC 2428 FTP Extensions for IPv6 and NATs
>
>We also support the following draft specifications:
>
>draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-16.txt - Securing FTP with TLS
>draft-ietf-ftpext-mlst-16.txt - Extensions to FTP
>draft-preston-ftpext-deflate-03.txt - Deflate transmission mode for FTP
>
>We do also support several informal FTP Extensions such as:
>
>http://www.raidenftpd.com/kb/kb000000037.htm - How to implement FXP
>(server to server transfer) over SSL/TLS using SSCN command
>XCRC, XMD5, XHSA1
>MFMT - specified in "draft-somers-ftp-mfxx-01.txt"
>
>All of this is in addition to FTP Proxy support, Socks support, HTTP
>Tunneling proxy support, and One-Time-Only password system. There may
>be other stuff we support in that client but I guess I've started to
>loose track. I've been working on Indy's FTP client for several years.
>
>As Chad pointed out, there is commercial support available. There is
>osme Indy documentation as well. There is also a Knowlege Base that
>covers a lot of FTP at http://www.indyproject.org/KB/ and I have
>recently started blogging about some of work on Indy.
>
>J. Peter Mugaas - Indy Pit Crew
>Internet Direct (Indy) Website - http://www.indyproject.org
>Check our my blog at
>http://www.indyproject.org/Sockets/Blogs/JPeterMugaas/index.iwp
>If I want to do business with you, I will contact you. Otherwise, do
>not contact me.
--
Alex Leblanc
Xceed Software Inc.
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