Uploading file to FTP with VB.NET - ftp

I'm getting errors when trying to upload a file to FTP Server with the next VB.NET code:
Dim miUri As String = "ftp://ftp.mydomain.com/folder/file.jpg"
Dim miRequest As Net.FtpWebRequest = Net.WebRequest.Create(miUri)
miRequest.Credentials = New Net.NetworkCredential("user", "pass")
miRequest.Method = Net.WebRequestMethods.Ftp.UploadFile
Try
Dim bFile() As Byte = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes("C:\carpeta\fichero.jpg")
Dim miStream As System.IO.Stream = miRequest.GetRequestStream()
miStream.Write(bFile, 0, bFile.Length)
miStream.Close()
miStream.Dispose()
Catch ex As Exception
Throw New Exception(ex.Message & ". El Archivo no pudo ser enviado.")
End Try
ex.Message = "Error on remote server: 227 Entering Passive Mode
(x,x,x,x,21,183). ." ex.InnerException.Message = System.Net.Sockets.SocketException = {"A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network x.x.x.x:5557"}
The line of code that throws the exception is:
Dim miStream As System.IO.Stream = miRequest.GetRequestStream()
POINTS:
If I try to connect by FileZilla or other FTP Client, I can connect without problems.
If I disable the antivirus, I can connect without problems.
Before somebody says something related to the firewall...
IF THE ANTIVIRUS IS ON, AND I CONNECT BY FILEZILLA, I CAN CONNECT WITHOUT PROBLEMS.
¿Where is the problem? ¿What I have to do in my code to get it run with the antivirus ON?
If FileZilla can, I also have to be able...
Thanks a lot for your replies.
Regards,

Sorry for the issue.
Finally it was because of the antivirus version I had installed.
Even putting the application as a trusted application, antivirus continued blocking the application.
I installed another version of the same antivirus and everything works fine.
Regards.

"A socket operation was attempted to an unreachable network x.x.x.x:5557"
means that the server could not be reached. There are a number of reasons that could cause this issue.
The server is down.
Your computer is blocking the server connection incoming / outgoing
(firewall)
Unreliable internet access
You mis-configured your connection string (the server string)
Essentially the issue most users will experience is that their firewall is blocking access to their FTP connection request. To fix this you must allow the application through your file wall.
-Cheers

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Oracle JDBC intermittent connection reset SQLRecoverableException [duplicate]

I am getting the following error trying to read from a socket. I'm doing a readInt() on that InputStream, and I am getting this error. Perusing the documentation this suggests that the client part of the connection closed the connection. In this scenario, I am the server.
I have access to the client log files and it is not closing the connection, and in fact its log files suggest I am closing the connection. So does anybody have an idea why this is happening? What else to check for? Does this arise when there are local resources that are perhaps reaching thresholds?
I do note that I have the following line:
socket.setSoTimeout(10000);
just prior to the readInt(). There is a reason for this (long story), but just curious, are there circumstances under which this might lead to the indicated error? I have the server running in my IDE, and I happened to leave my IDE stuck on a breakpoint, and I then noticed the exact same errors begin appearing in my own logs in my IDE.
Anyway, just mentioning it, hopefully not a red herring. :-(
There are several possible causes.
The other end has deliberately reset the connection, in a way which I will not document here. It is rare, and generally incorrect, for application software to do this, but it is not unknown for commercial software.
More commonly, it is caused by writing to a connection that the other end has already closed normally. In other words an application protocol error.
It can also be caused by closing a socket when there is unread data in the socket receive buffer.
In Windows, 'software caused connection abort', which is not the same as 'connection reset', is caused by network problems sending from your end. There's a Microsoft knowledge base article about this.
Connection reset simply means that a TCP RST was received. This happens when your peer receives data that it can't process, and there can be various reasons for that.
The simplest is when you close the socket, and then write more data on the output stream. By closing the socket, you told your peer that you are done talking, and it can forget about your connection. When you send more data on that stream anyway, the peer rejects it with an RST to let you know it isn't listening.
In other cases, an intervening firewall or even the remote host itself might "forget" about your TCP connection. This could happen if you don't send any data for a long time (2 hours is a common time-out), or because the peer was rebooted and lost its information about active connections. Sending data on one of these defunct connections will cause a RST too.
Update in response to additional information:
Take a close look at your handling of the SocketTimeoutException. This exception is raised if the configured timeout is exceeded while blocked on a socket operation. The state of the socket itself is not changed when this exception is thrown, but if your exception handler closes the socket, and then tries to write to it, you'll be in a connection reset condition. setSoTimeout() is meant to give you a clean way to break out of a read() operation that might otherwise block forever, without doing dirty things like closing the socket from another thread.
Whenever I have had odd issues like this, I usually sit down with a tool like WireShark and look at the raw data being passed back and forth. You might be surprised where things are being disconnected, and you are only being notified when you try and read.
You should inspect full trace very carefully,
I've a server socket application and fixed a java.net.SocketException: Connection reset case.
In my case it happens while reading from a clientSocket Socket object which is closed its connection because of some reason. (Network lost,firewall or application crash or intended close)
Actually I was re-establishing connection when I got an error while reading from this Socket object.
Socket clientSocket = ServerSocket.accept();
is = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(clientSocket.getInputStream()));
int readed = is.read(); // WHERE ERROR STARTS !!!
The interesting thing is for my JAVA Socket if a client connects to my ServerSocket and close its connection without sending anything is.read() is being called repeatedly.It seems because of being in an infinite while loop for reading from this socket you try to read from a closed connection.
If you use something like below for read operation;
while(true)
{
Receive();
}
Then you get a stackTrace something like below on and on
java.net.SocketException: Socket is closed
at java.net.ServerSocket.accept(ServerSocket.java:494)
What I did is just closing ServerSocket and renewing my connection and waiting for further incoming client connections
String Receive() throws Exception
{
try {
int readed = is.read();
....
}catch(Exception e)
{
tryReConnect();
logit(); //etc
}
//...
}
This reestablises my connection for unknown client socket losts
private void tryReConnect()
{
try
{
ServerSocket.close();
//empty my old lost connection and let it get by garbage col. immediately
clientSocket=null;
System.gc();
//Wait a new client Socket connection and address this to my local variable
clientSocket= ServerSocket.accept(); // Waiting for another Connection
System.out.println("Connection established...");
}catch (Exception e) {
String message="ReConnect not successful "+e.getMessage();
logit();//etc...
}
}
I couldn't find another way because as you see from below image you can't understand whether connection is lost or not without a try and catch ,because everything seems right . I got this snapshot while I was getting Connection reset continuously.
Embarrassing to say it, but when I had this problem, it was simply a mistake that I was closing the connection before I read all the data. In cases with small strings being returned, it worked, but that was probably due to the whole response was buffered, before I closed it.
In cases of longer amounts of text being returned, the exception was thrown, since more then a buffer was coming back.
You might check for this oversight. Remember opening a URL is like a file, be sure to close it (release the connection) once it has been fully read.
I had the same error. I found the solution for problem now. The problem was client program was finishing before server read the streams.
I had this problem with a SOA system written in Java. I was running both the client and the server on different physical machines and they worked fine for a long time, then those nasty connection resets appeared in the client log and there wasn't anything strange in the server log. Restarting both client and server didn't solve the problem. Finally we discovered that the heap on the server side was rather full so we increased the memory available to the JVM: problem solved! Note that there was no OutOfMemoryError in the log: memory was just scarce, not exhausted.
Check your server's Java version. Happened to me because my Weblogic 10.3.6 was on JDK 1.7.0_75 which was on TLSv1. The rest endpoint I was trying to consume was shutting down anything below TLSv1.2.
By default Weblogic was trying to negotiate the strongest shared protocol. See details here: Issues with setting https.protocols System Property for HTTPS connections.
I added verbose SSL logging to identify the supported TLS. This indicated TLSv1 was being used for the handshake.
-Djavax.net.debug=ssl:handshake:verbose:keymanager:trustmanager -Djava.security.debug=access:stack
I resolved this by pushing the feature out to our JDK8-compatible product, JDK8 defaults to TLSv1.2. For those restricted to JDK7, I also successfully tested a workaround for Java 7 by upgrading to TLSv1.2. I used this answer: How to enable TLS 1.2 in Java 7
I also had this problem with a Java program trying to send a command on a server via SSH. The problem was with the machine executing the Java code. It didn't have the permission to connect to the remote server. The write() method was doing alright, but the read() method was throwing a java.net.SocketException: Connection reset. I fixed this problem with adding the client SSH key to the remote server known keys.
In my case was DNS problem .
I put in host file the resolved IP and everything works fine.
Of course it is not a permanent solution put this give me time to fix the DNS problem.
In my experience, I often encounter the following situations;
If you work in a corporate company, contact the network and security team. Because in requests made to external services, it may be necessary to give permission for the relevant endpoint.
Another issue is that the SSL certificate may have expired on the server where your application is running.
I've seen this problem. In my case, there was an error caused by reusing the same ClientRequest object in an specific Java class. That project was using Jboss Resteasy.
Initially only one method was using/invoking the object ClientRequest (placed as global variable in the class) to do a request in an specific URL.
After that, another method was created to get data with another URL, reusing the same ClientRequest object, though.
The solution: in the same class was created another ClientRequest object and exclusively to not be reused.
In my case it was problem with TSL version. I was using Retrofit with OkHttp client and after update ALB on server side I should have to delete my config with connectionSpecs:
OkHttpClient.Builder clientBuilder = new OkHttpClient.Builder();
List<ConnectionSpec> connectionSpecs = new ArrayList<>();
connectionSpecs.add(ConnectionSpec.COMPATIBLE_TLS);
// clientBuilder.connectionSpecs(connectionSpecs);
So try to remove or add this config to use different TSL configurations.
I used to get the 'NotifyUtil::java.net.SocketException: Connection reset at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:...' message in the Apache Console of my Netbeans7.4 setup.
I tried many solutions to get away from it, what worked for me is enabling the TLS on Tomcat.
Here is how to:
Create a keystore file to store the server's private key and
self-signed certificate by executing the following command:
Windows:
"%JAVA_HOME%\bin\keytool" -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA
Unix:
$JAVA_HOME/bin/keytool -genkey -alias tomcat -keyalg RSA
and specify a password value of "changeit".
As per https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/ssl-howto.html
(This will create a .keystore file in your localuser dir)
Then edit server.xml (uncomment and edit relevant lines) file (%CATALINA_HOME%apache-tomcat-7.0.41.0_base\conf\server.xml) to enable SSL and TLS protocol:
<Connector port="8443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true"
maxThreads="150" scheme="https" secure="true"
clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" keystorePass="changeit" />
I hope this helps

Unity TCP socket connection not working on Mac OS X

I'm trying to publish my Unity multiplayer game to Mac App Store, but by some reason in production the socket fails to connect to server, throwing the following exception:
"Access denied System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Bind".
I have "com.apple.security.network.client" and "com.apple.security.app-sandbox" entitlement, but it does not work. HTTP requests work OK though.
If I test the app in debug build - it works..what could be blocking it ? The port I'm using is 16005
This is the client connection code:
var tcpClient = new TcpClient();
tcpClient.Connect(Host, Port);
networkStream = tcpClient.GetStream();
listenThread = new Thread(ListenToServer);
listenThread.Start();
Any ideas ?
I Solved the problem.
It turns out I had to add the server entitlement too.
(Although I'm not starting any server nor listening for incoming connections).
So adding "com.apple.security.network.server" entitlement solved the problem

communication not allowed through windows firewall

I am trying to run ftp client and server.
The connection successful only if both server and client windows firewall is turned off.
I tried to turn the firewall on and allow roll for:
1. (inbound and outbound) tcp port 20-21 allow
2. allow end point communication for server-client
However, my problem still not solved.
Anyone has any other ideas?
Thanks ahead
Fixed it. The server throw an exception. I found it when i created log file on both server and client side

Windows XPe RAS error 756 "connection is being dialled"

I'm working with an embedded system which has a RAS entry already set up, using the API function RasDial from rasapi32.dll.
All works well except if something goes wrong after RasDial and before RasHangUp. In this case any further attempt to dial is met with error 756 "connection is being dialled", whether the dial attempt is done via the API or via the Windows rasdial command line utility.
rasdial connectionname /d doesn't help either.
The com port used for the modem is locked.
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Obviously under normal circumstances the solution is to make sure that RasDial is always followed by RasHangUp. But for cases where this doesn't happen, is there a way of aborting the dial attempt? For example, if the app calls RasDial and then crashes, how do I get out of that other than by rebooting?
Unfortunately, unless your application can properly terminate the connection that's in progress before exiting the RAS state machine becomes corrupted and must reboot to fix the problem. I've noticed that Windows 7 handles these sorts of scenarios better than XP and Vista did, but there are still occasions when I've had to reboot.
I've managed to prevent most of these sorts of problems with the DotRas API as long as they're occuring in the event handlers of the RasDialer, but if the application crashes from another thread and not from the background thread which raises the RasDialer events, there's nothing I can do about that.
For asynchronous dialing using the DotRas 1.2 SDK:
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dialer.EntryName = "My Connection";
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From this point you can call dialer.DialAsyncCancel() if you want to cancel the connection attempt that's in progress.
For synchronous dialing using the DotRas 1.2 SDK is very similar to asynchronous dialing other than replacing the DialAsync call with simply dialer.Dial().
Here's a link to the API I was talking about: http://www.codeplex.com/DotRas
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org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTP.sendCommand(FTP.java:450)
org.apache.commons.net.ftp.FTP.sendCommand(FTP.java:478)
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Thanks,
Ravi
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FTPClient ftp = new FTPClient();
// connect and login code here
ftp.enterLocalPassiveMode();
This should fix your problem.

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