[WS_FTP Forum] FTP protocol

[Tony Maertens]

Hi there,   We are a web printing company in Belgium.   We use quite often FTP to send or receive files from our customers.  (mostly PDF)   It happens quite regularly that these files get corrupt and the transfer has to be restarted.   1)       I thought that there was a ‘security’ mechanism built into FTP so that it starts retries when a block of data is not correctly received by the receiving machine So how is it possible that files get corrupt ?   2)       Is there any way how we can prevent this ?   Thanks in advance for any answers.   Best wishes for 2004 !   Tony Maertens