Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder1.enfer-du-nord.net!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!usenet.ukfsn.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: O.T. FTP upload Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) Organization: UK Free Software Network Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 84.45.235.129 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: localhost.localdomain 1320268828 19943 84.45.235.129 (2 Nov 2011 21:20:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@localhost.localdomain NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 21:20:28 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Pan/0.135 (Tomorrow I'll Wake Up and Scald Myself with Tea; GIT 30dc37b master) Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:9385 On Tue, 01 Nov 2011 07:07:10 -0700, Roedy Green wrote: > There are hundreds of FTP utilities. What do you use for FTP unattended > uploads? > Short answer: I don't - I generally use gftp, a GUI tool which has the ability to whole directory structures. This is a Linux tool (the g stands for Gnome) but near equivalents are Filezilla (supports Linux, Windows, OS X but has an over-busy GUI) and WS-FTP (Windows-specific if it still exists, very similar to gftp). If I was going to use unattended ftp transfers I'd just use the standard Linux command line ftp client because its very easily scriptable. If SSH was available I'd use sftp instead and for the same reasons. Are you aware of J-ftp - http://sourceforge.net/projects/j-ftp/ I haven't tried it, but it has a similar GUI to gftp and handles a variety of protocols including scp. > My ISP is still waiting for a round TUIT to set up a VPN to replace FTP. > If your ISP supports SSH, and most do, that's a good argument for investigating sftp and/or PuTTY (which provides a decent scp command line tool for Windows). -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |