On using FileList as ftp browser.

Ned Konz ned at bike-nomad.com
Wed Jul 23 18:30:29 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:26 am, Karl Ramberg wrote:
> I've been trying to use the FileList as a ftp browser and I have
> run into some issues:
>
> Getting files from ftp servers seems to time out very often.
> Large files will simply not download, the connection will time out.
> (ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/)
>

There is a 45-second timeout by default. But I don't believe there is 
the automatic retry that the HTTP servers do.

> But accessing http servers seem to work fine, even for downloading
> large files, (BobSuperSwiki).


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