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Article: 12705 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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Newsgroups: comp.protocols.kermit.misc
From: Rob <nospam@newsranger.com>
References: <8PTg7.10973$2u.79082@www.newsranger.com> <9m130g$3kr$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>
Subject: Re: FTP idle time-out?
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Would you have any other advice as to how I could achieve this functionality
using ftp? If not do I need ckermit on both the sending and receiving end to use
the kermit transfer protocol? Any advice would be greatly appreciated since this
is a somewhat time critical problem.
Thanks,
-Rob
In article <9m130g$3kr$1@newsmaster.cc.columbia.edu>, Frank da Cruz says...
>
>In article <8PTg7.10973$2u.79082@www.newsranger.com>,
>Rob B. <nospam@newsranger.com> wrote:
>: I am writing a script to automate an ftp process using Ckermit 8.0
>: beta. I need to be able to set a time-out so if the server is not
>: responding the process will terminate with an error message, I believe
>: that the default timeout must be set to infinite. Is this even possible?
>:
>No, sorry. Unlike Kermit protocol, FTP doesn't time out. Instead it
>relies on the underlying TCP/IP protocols to take care of such things. If
>the connection dies, the FTP operation will fail. However, TCP/IP does not
>interpret idleness or nonresponsiveness as a lost connection, at least not
>until TCP Keepalives kick in several hours later.
>
>I can see how a timeout feature might be useful for FTP and will look into
>adding one before the final 8.0 release.
>
>- Frank