dont wait in the FTP transfer confirmation dialg, or TC dies

[xrmb]

What I did last night it was selecting 3 files from a local ftp server to be transfered to my local harddisk. I pushed F5 for copy, the confirmation dialog popped up. I didn't OK/start the process so I don't start doing something else today in the morning before finishing this. The connection timed out in the background over night. Today I press ok to start, and there it goes... the program that never crashes hangs and can be only killed.

I've read similar FTP problems threads always suggesting increasing the timeout on the server...

...if I go and ask my FTP Server admin for a higher timeout (of 12hrs??) he will laugh at me and tell me to complain to who ever wrote the client... oh wait, I just did that, now I dont have to go to the admin

[TealC]

...if I go and ask my FTP Server admin for a higher timeout (of 12hrs??) he will laugh at me and tell me to complain to who ever wrote the client...

I'm just curious, but wouldn't the keep alive function (noop) do the trick?

[SanskritFritz]

2TealC
I doubt it, most ftp servers got much smarter nowadays...

[xrmb]

NOOP doesnt work, PWD does, but I still think its no reason to freeze TC

[klix]

+1

the same bug was described here:
viewtopic.php?t=13846
(sorry for incomplete link - I was not allowed to post link in reply)

Maybe reasonable solution would be to verify whether connection is still alive before performing any COPY operation from FTP server?

Please somebody fix this bug - this is REALLY irritating

[ghisler(Author)]

TC just doesn't expect that you leave this dialog open for hours...

[klix]

My provider offers public FTP server with approx 1 minute timeout
And it takes me often more than one minute to just read all filenames in one folder and select necessary ones to download
Of course I understand that this is not likely a use case for US and Europe ISP, but in Ukraine it is a real case.

[SanskritFritz]

2ghisler(Author)

TC just doesn't expect that you leave this dialog open for hours...

Hmm, does TC simply forget about it??! What do you mean by this? How can a behaviour of a program change over time?

[ghisler(Author)]

It' just not feasible to send another command (as an 'are you there') before each single operation, just because some brain-dead admins cannot configure their servers.