At 09:54 AM 9/4/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Sorry, Deb, but I must agree with Jon on this. If your FTP >program was staying connected after more than a few minutes >of inactivity, the server was flawed - or had some serious >security holes. Personally, if I ran across a host that let >me stay connected the way you describe, I'd wonder about how >many other security holes were on it and complain to the >provider. > >I use Windows Commander for all my FTP needs. When I am >disconnected for inactivity and click to reconnect, it takes >less than 30 seconds to reconnect and continue with whatever >I was doing - not enough time to feel like it is cutting into >productivity. > >If I were you, I'd be happy that some *knowledgeable* tech >discovered the problem and corrected it - which is probably >what happened when it began functioning *properly*. > >Cheers, >Tom Fosson
This just makes no sense at all. I can't be the only web designer in the world that keeps their connections open when working, can I? Does everyone else open the connection, upload, shut down, check pages, fix pages, open the connection, upload, shut down, check pages, fix pages, open the connection ..... etc ??????????? Or does everyone just put up with having to reconnect every 5 minutes? I'm dead serious here, I'd really like to know how people handle this, maybe I'm missing something that works better than what I do. How do they expect people to work when the darn thing is shutting down every 5 minutes? That's hardly enough time to upload a few files and check the pages in a couple browsers. I would say it takes maybe 5-10 seconds to reconnect each time, but you multiply that by say 50 times in about 8 hours and it gets not only time consuming but FRUSTRATING AT ALL GET-OUT!!! I have cable modem to help me save time, this slow crap is working against my cable modem speed and I may as well use a dialup then, where a ping will work! I should think a more reasonable time would be minimum of 20 minutes and an hour would be even better. There are firewalls and antivirus programs out there for protection. No, they're not foolproof, I understand, but .. oh what's the use? I'm sick to death of the whole thing. Apparently I'm the only person in the world who this bothers and who doesn't understand why one is so limited in this fashion, otherwise enough complaints would have been given to these server people and they'd do something to fix this to a more reasonable time frame. Thanks to all who tried to help or give input :) Deb ____ � The WDVL Discussion List from WDVL.COM � ____ To Join wdvltalk, Send An Email To: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Send Your Posts To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change subscription settings to the wdvltalk digest version: http://wdvl.internet.com/WDVL/Forum/#sub ________________ http://www.wdvl.com _______________________ You are currently subscribed to wdvltalk as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
