Louise, @Jim: the application on the VM is not a GAE app then?
Correct, in our setup it is running on an Amazon EC2 instance; we put it together back before the days of GCE VMs. The app itself is Java using Apache Commons FTPClient. Yes, it is a lot of work for something so simple as a file transfer, which gets us back to the original commentary about FTP being archaic. Understanding how FTP handles ports it is quite reasonable that a platform such as GAE cannot support it while at the same time providing all the other stuff we love about it. Also understanding some companies can't/won't move away from FTP leads us to fun little hacking exercises such as this. Distributed data integration can be a dirty business. On Wednesday, February 8, 2017 at 5:02:22 AM UTC-6, Louise Elmose Hedegaard wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to connect to a FTP server to fetch files for my app. > There is no alternative, as the files are from another vendor, which only > has the option to add the files to a FTP server. > I tried using the Java JSch library for a SFTP connection, but as the > library creates a new thread when connecting the session this is not an > option, as GAE does not support starting new threads either. > > Does anybody have suggestions for how I can work around the fact that GAE > does not support FTP connections? > > Thanks, > -Louise > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/f771215a-e4f3-453a-8afa-70b9f3787f2a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
