Re: [OT:] FTP clients

From: Active8 (reply2group_at_ndbbm.net)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:54:22 -0500

On 01 Mar 2005 01:28:16 GMT,
pbdelete@spamnuke.ludd.luthdelete.se.invalid wrote:

> Active8 <reply2group@ndbbm.net> wrote:
>>Just got done chatting with an earthlink droid. I don't recall haw
>>many ISPs suggest using WS_FTP for uploading to personal webspace,
>>but the best this moron could do is suggest uploading via this site:
>
>>http://www.net2ftp.com/
>
>>which decompresses archives. I want to upload a zip, not the
>>individual files contained therein.
>
>>I used to use WS_FTP Pro 7.6, now it's WS_FTP Pro 9.0 and it at
>>least deleted files. I think it uploaded them too. Using passive
>>xfer (like I selected for the link above and that's the way it
>>always worked at earthlink) and manually selecting binary mode. The
>>new WS_FTP Pro is a radical change in GUI from what I had, but it
>>should still work.
>
>>If not, who's using what around here? Maybe it's time to change.
>
> Considering "what's out there" unencrypted transfer of data is kind of
> wreckless. As any simple network snooping will grab passwords just like that.
> Also download over ftp is vurnable to the man-in-the-middle attack. So
> files ought to be signed at least to be secure.

If I were worried about security I'd PGP it. I'm just leaving some
file. Here. You can have them. Maybe you can figger out why
output.fft f*cks up and input1.dat doesn't.

http://home.earthlink.net/~mcolasono/tmp/degub.zip

> Try to find an isp that support SCP transfer.
>
> This program is nice to do encrypted transfers with:
> http://winscp.sourceforge.net/eng/download.php
>
> (With roots from http://www.openssh.com/ and ssh.com)

Ooooh ... cool ... Integrates with Pageant (Putty Agent)

I bet earthlink doesn't do SFTP. There's other ways to get at my
stuff from far away. I wouldn't host a serious site on earthlink.
I'd get a host with a shell acct. 

-- 
Best Regards,
Mike

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