bmabray's Journal: FTPGoat

New project: FTPGoat. This is one of those projects that should be at the bottom of my list, but because it would be useful, I may put off everything else and do it. :-)

FTPGoat is an FTP client similar to WS_FTP. So, why do I need it when WS_FTP is free? Because I can't get WS_FTP to function from work, thanks to our company's proxy. Two things do work, however: the built-in Windows command line FTP program (yuck) & Blog Goat. I'm guessing that programs created with Visual C++ are told the secret password to function properly through a proxy. Or something like that. Anyway, if that's what it takes to get a decent FTP program, that's what I'll do.

Active / Passive FTP

[Matt3281]

> I'm guessing that programs created with Visual C++
> are told the secret password to function properly
> through a proxy.

Could also be the difference between Active and Passive FTP. Sometimes firewalls and proxies won't allow passive so you have do it active... not sure if WS_FTP will let you choose which one to use, but it should....

Just a thought, though.. I could be way off :)

Re:Active / Passive FTP

[bmabray]

That might be it... I just looked at WS_FTP's options, and there is one for active/passive. I'll try that when I get to work. Thanks!

I figured it had something to do with the software detecting proxy settings. I know some apps can read your proxy settings and use them, and I thought maybe that was one of the benefits of selling one's sou... I mean, using Microsoft Visual Studio. ;-)