> Hi All, > > It's been a long time since I've had to use CFFTP (CF5) so I may well > be missing something but I seem to have come across a couple of things > one of which, I consider to be a bug. > > Firstly, the bug. > > I need to download a large (600Mb) file, if I set the timeout value to > something like 5 seconds for my connection then the tag times out > after 5 seconds rather than after 5 seconds of inactivity. There is a > major difference here. > > If I set the timeout to 30 seconds, I get about 45Mb down before the > tag times out. > If I set the timeout to 300 seconds, I get about 450Mb down before the > tag times out. > > If I set the timeout to something silly, say 120000 seconds, the tag > just hangs (I assume until the timeout is reached). (I know why this > is). > > If I set the timeout to something more reasonable, say 900 seconds, > the tag does not return until the 900 seconds are up and I get the > file :-). > > CFFTP is hanging until timeout because of the config of the FTP server > (something I cannot change as it's a 3rd party server). I've double > checked the connection with standard FTP clients and they too hang at > the end until their timeout is reached. > > The difference between CFFTP and other FTP clients is that other FTP > clients can have timeouts of say 5 seconds and only timeout after the > entire file has been downloaded. Ideally this is what CFFTP should do > and I'd consider it to be a bug if it did otherwise which it does. > > Secondly, the annoying problem. > > The server I'm connecting to requires a PASV connection from where I > am. Ideally, I would like set this on the first connection and have CF > track this in the connection structure that is created. It isn't. > Every CFFTP call I make, I have to set passive="Yes". Until I dumped > out the connection structure, I couldn't figure out why I wasn't even > able to list a set of directories after the initial connection as I'd > assumed that passive being an attribute of the connection would be > carried through in the connection struct. This is not so. Annoying, > fixable but shouldn't be there. > > Paul >
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307474 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
