[REQ] Repeat FTP command after reconnecting

[Flint]

1. Some FTP connection is opened but gone offline.
2. Press e.g. F5 to download some file.
3. TC shows a question if you want to reconnect. Reply Yes.
4. TC reconnects, and now you have to repeat your action, i.e. again press F5.

Suggestion: it would be more convenient if TC after restoring the connection performed the action that the user requested.

[petermad]

BIG Support ++++

[Clo]

2Flint

Hello K. !

• That makes sense ! I suppport !

 FR
Claude
Clo

[ado]

support +++ again




ado

[Flint]

support +++ again

Ah, I definitely should improve my forum search skills...

[ghisler(Author)]

This isn't implemented because some FTP servers don't return a valid current directory, or don't return to the same location even when the directory is passed to them.

For example, some servers for Windows support changing drives via the command
cd d:

The server will then show the contents of drive d:, but list the current directory only in the form
/subdir1/subdir2

Now when TC reconnects, and sends
cd /subdir1/subdir2
to the server, the server will go just to c:\subdir1\subdir2

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)

Good evening,

• Well, we know that Unix doesn't use drive letters, it knows only Holy Root “/” and all the rest is “directory”.

…Now when TC reconnects, and sends
cd /subdir1/subdir2…

• Why not repeat the drive for that call? Like:

cd D:/subdir1/subdir2…

 VG
Claude
Clo

[ghisler(Author)]

How should I know that the other side is not Unix? How should I know that you can change drives this way when the server reports just /subdir1/subdir2 as the path?

[Clo]

2ghisler(Author)

Good evening,

How should I know that the other side is not Unix? How should I know that you can change drives this way when the server reports just /subdir1/subdir2 as the path?

• Maybe reading the very previous connection in the log file ?

 VG
Claude
Clo

[Flint]

How should I know that the other side is not Unix?

Doesn't the SYST command do the trick? What is it called for in TC when a connection is established?

For example, some servers for Windows support changing drives via the command
cd d:

Could you please tell a sample FTP server which allows to do that? I'd like to test this feature. I tried with IIS but no success: it just accepts only one specific directory as a root of the FTP. Moreover, on trying "cd d:" it just reports "550 d:: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect."

[ghisler(Author)]

Doesn't the SYST command do the trick?

No, many servers report themselves as Unix because they return a standard Unix-style file listing.

[ado]

and what about you'll remember for each open FTP connection if user entered something like "cd d:" and after reconnect you'll simply send the last "cd d:" (if user used it) and then "cd /subdir1/subdir2"

[Clo]

2ado

Hello!

• It's that I said above by using the log-file…

 KR
Claude
Clo

[Plenz]

1. Some FTP connection is opened but gone offline.
2. Press e.g. F5 to download some file.
3. TC shows a question if you want to reconnect. Reply Yes.
4. TC reconnects, and now you have to repeat your action, i.e. again press F5.

First of all, it would be more convenient if TC does not ask me if I want to reconnect. It should reconnect without asking me. In my opinion, this question is too stupid. I don't remember any case where I said "no".

How should I know that the other side is not Unix?

You must not know. Let the user know. Just give us some checkboxes to tell TC how to work, please!

[Lars Blaabjerg]

If a server returns a path to a directory and does not go to the same directory when fed the same path, I think that server has a problem and should be treated as a special case (user selectable).

I would very much like automatic reconnection too.