OT: Good Windows FTP Servers

From: Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri Oct 8 12:14:21 2004

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 12:37 -0400, Cini, Richard wrote:
> Hello, all:
>
> Putting any Windows jokes aside,

awww!

> I'm looking for a decent Win32-based FTP server program to use at
> home to move files from my weather station computer to an Apache
> Web server which is also at home.

I don't have any specific recommendations, but if that's all (or almost
all) that you'll use the ftp server for, I imagine pretty much anything
will do as it's not going to have to handle any serious load - it'll
either work or it won't.

> Not being familiar with Apache, maybe there's a way to do this
> without an FTP server,

well an http upload would work, but it'd need some code on the server
(compiled cgi, Java servlet, php script etc.) to receive the file and do
something useful with it, and something on your client machine would
obviously need some code that can talk http and actually do the file
upload. Possibly more trouble than it's worth given that it sounds like
you have the client bit covered (using ftp) already.

Of course the server-side bit using http is likely pretty easy, as I
expect there are lots of free examples of upload scripts on the 'net -
but the client-side may or may not be tricky to either find an example
of or write your own.


I did write my own ftp server in Java a few years back as I needed a
portable one that'd work on various platforms, but I have absolutely no
idea what I did with the code unfortunately :-(

cheers,

Jules
Received on Fri Oct 08 2004 - 12:14:21 BST