Better handling of FTP disconnect

[johncl]

When a user has been idle for some time and the FTP connection has timed out and then copies a file to the remote location he is met with lots of dialogs that he has to choose OK on before being reconnected and having to tell Total Commander to copy the file once again.

A better handling of this condition would be to auto-reconnect if connection is lost (or at least offer this as an option) and do the transfer immediately without a single dialog box popping up. Optionally just design it for one dialog box asking "Connection lost. Do you want to reconnect and upload file?". Much simpler and more user friendly.

The integrated FTP client is one of Total Commanders bigger advantages.

[Clo]

2johncl

Hello ! Welcome aboard !

• Well, this has been requested already n… times…
- Please, use the Search.

• Indeed, one can send a command to keep the connection alive - i.e. NOOP,
but maybe some servers don't support (or ignore) it…

 Kind regards
Claude
Clo

[johncl]

Ah sorry. Didnt think that it had been suggested before... thought it was just a nagging thing that I thought about.

The NOOP works sometimes, but it still seems to die on me from time to time.

[Clo]

2johncl

With some servers, it's better to set a shorter delay between the NOOPs,
I had to do so with the old one of my provider…
- The default cadence is each 90 seconds, but you can shorten it to see whether the connection sticks better…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[CoolWater]

If NOOP doesn't do the trick, you should use LIST or something like that.

Regards,
CoolWater

[johncl]

Ok, trying LIST now and seeing if that works. Thanks for the tip.