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We have a legacy system that uses the Windows FTP client with some FTP script files to manipulate files over FTP. We've found the Windows FTP client to be fairly unreliable though in regards to error handling - for example if it can't connect to the remote site it doesn't even return an error code from the commandline. And sometimes it just seems to hang altogether if the connection to the FTP server goes down midway through a file transfer.
So we're looking for an alternative. Is there a script-able commandline FTP client for Windows that will handle the existing FTP script files (written for the Windows FTP client) out of the box, but with improved error handling?
I'm not sure what your activities are surrounding your FTP usage, but if it's a build web app local and deploy to server type activities, you could try CruiseControl: http://cruisecontrol.sourceforge.net/
This might be a good replacement for FTP scripts if you're concerned about error handling.
Look up "MOVEit Freely". It's primary role is a drop-in replacement for ftp.exe to handle FTP/S, but it may also have the better behavior you're looking for.
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I used to use Sublime text and paid for a donation plugin that perfectly uploaded when i saved a file, to my remote FTP.
Now, i have switched to Visual Studio Code and having trouble getting that same functionality. I currently am trying two FTP extensions - ftp-sync and ftp-simple. Neither of these seem to auto-upload to my FTP without me having to click through extra steps, like to specify which remote FTP of the few I have in config, and / or remote folder.
I was looking for any advice on
If i am doing it incorrectly - maybe something to do with workspace in VSC - is there a way to inform VSC which local folder goes with which remote server / folder?
Which FTP extension can do this.To make sure i am clear, what I need is when i save a file in VSC, it instantly pushes it to the remote FTP in the same folder, without needing anything from me besides the save.
thanks!
From my experience, SFTP is so far very easy to setup and use. It loads your remote directories in VS Code and lets you edit and save them directly on the remote server.
Check it out https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=liximomo.sftp
I finally found a plugin that does this, and this is it: ftp-kr at VSC Marketplace
It will automatically upload to server without any extra clicks or prompts on save and more in Visual Studio Code. You do have to configure it to do so, but it is working for me.
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I noticed in this video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIxDJof7xxQ - that Ian uses a text editor that enables maintaining a FTP connection. Whenever he saves the text-file (which is a HTML file in his case), that update gets sent to the server automatically. I would love to be able to do that.
As for now I use Notepad++ in which I predominately create HTML and JavaScript text files. My machine is Windows 7. I have a web-hosting account (ASP.net) for my domains, which also includes a FTP account, of course.
I am looking for a lightweight text-editor that enables the functionality which can be seen in the above video - I want to be able to open a text-file (remotely via FTP), edit it, and then just hit CTRL+S to send the updated version to the remote server via FTP.
The Zeus Lite editor does seamless FTP editing.
Doesn't Notepad++ have a plug-in for this? I think I noticed that a while back...
Not quite what you're looking for, the FileZilla FTP client will detect that the file being edited has been modified and prompts you to upload it (maybe that can be made automatic also).
Vim can do this, using the ftp plugin.
http://www.vim.org/
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1075
Notepad++ is the editor you are looking for. I use it all the time to edit files on LAMP servers with FTP
under plugins open nppftp and click show, and the command interface for the ftp engine will appear.
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When I'm developing something that sends email, I sometimes don't want to actually send any email, but I do want to see what email would be sent using live data. However, there's not an easy way to do this, as I haven't found a local SMTP server that will receive my mail and then just hold it for me in a queue so I can view it.
In Windows XP and Vista, I used the locally installed SMTP server and just set it to deliver to a smart host that didn't exist - the mail just sat in the "inetput\mailroot\queue" folder forever, and I could view it whenever I wanted to. However, in Windows 7, there's no longer an integrated SMTP server, and though I've found a number of SMTP servers that can be installed locally and relay mail for me, I want one that won't relay mail.
Does anybody have suggestions on how to accomplish this functionality? I've considered writing my own, but implementing the whole RFC spec seemed like a big task if there's something out there. Maybe there's an open-source project that I could modify just to write the mail to disk instead of delivering it.
Papercut is likely what you want, though it is only compatible with Windows.
Another local test SMTP server application:
https://nilhcem.github.io/FakeSMTP/
Awesome, free, cross-platform, and even runs well in a VM environment like Vagrant: http://mailcatcher.me/
You may want to look at NDdumbster
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Most of the windows SFTP clients (like FileZilla) seem to be GUI-based. I need something I can call from batch files.
pscp and psftp are very customizable(options) and light weight. Open source to boot.
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html
WinSCP has the command line functionality:
c:\>winscp.exe /console /script=example.txt
where scripting is done in example.txt.
See http://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation
Refer to http://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_automation_advanced for details on how to use a scripting language such as Windows command interpreter/php/perl.
FileZilla does have a command line but it is limited to only opening the GUI with a pre-defined server that is in the Site Manager.
Cygwin + sftp/scp natrually
WinSCP can be called from batch file:
"C:\Program Files\WinSCP\WinSCP.exe" /console
Example commands:
option batch on
option confirm off
option transfer binary
open sftp://username#hostname:port -hostkey="ssh-rsa "
www.bitvise.com - sftpc is a good command line client also.
LFTP is great, however it is Linux only. You can find the Windows port here. Never tried though.
Achtunq, it uses Cygwin, but everything is included in the bundle.
bitvise tunnelier works really well
This little application does the job for me. I could not find another CLI based client that would access my IIS based TLS/SSL secured ftp site:
http://netwinsite.com/surgeftp/sslftp.htm
Filezilla is great and it can support command line arguments.
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Is there a program or API I can code against to extract individual files from a Windows Vista Complete PC Backup image?
I like the idea of having a complete image to restore from, but hate the idea that I have to make two backups, one for restoring individual files, and one for restoring my computer in the event of a catastrophic failure.
Yes there is an API. Windows Vista Complete PC Backup creates a .vhd (virtual hard disk) image that can be accessed via the Virtual Server 2005 API or from a command line utility available in Virtual Server 2005 which is freely available here.
7-Zip will open .vhd files of WindowsImageBackup...