Re: Scripting FTP retries
- From: "Bernard Cheah [MVP]" <qbernard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 16:58:55 +0800
IIS 6 ftp support both REST and APPE, it's client side that control it, not
server end.
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"KnightFall1" <KnightFall1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I am attempting to write a script that will connect via FTP to an IIS 6
> server and retrieve a series of files. This activity is occurring across a
> WAN. However I need to take advantage of IIS' retry functionality in case
> there is a disconnection over the WAN link.
>
> From doing some research the FTP resume feature in IIS appears to have the
> following limitations, which don't affect the way I want to do this :
> 1)Wildcard downloads using the FTP command MGET do not support resume.
> 2) Uploading files to the server do not support resume.
> 3) Downloading files larger than 4 gigabytes do not support resume.
>
> Basically I'm running the following command:
> 1) ftp -s:<scriptname>
> 2) the script contains the following sample info:
> open <ip address>
> username
> password
> cd <proper directory>
> get <filename1>
> get <filename2>
> bye
>
> How do I script FTP retries? When I look at the Unix implementation of
> FTP,
> it appears to support commands such as RETR and REST which appear to be
> related to resuming failed transfers but it doesn't appear Microsoft's
> implementation supports these commands. I found an open source program
> called
> Wget that has switches that support retries, even to the point where you
> can
> specify how many retries you want to perform. But since this is production
> server, I cannot install an unsupported, open source program on it.
>
.
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