remote-to-remote ftp client

[Tavee Sarilarp]

I'm looking for remote-to-remote ftp client. FTP clients like Filezilla and
SmartFTP are very nice but they cannot do FTP from one remote site to
another remote site directly. You have to FTP from one remote site to local
drive and then from local drive to another remote site.

Thanks all.

 

[H-Man]

I'm looking for remote-to-remote ftp client. FTP clients like Filezilla and
SmartFTP are very nice but they cannot do FTP from one remote site to
another remote site directly. You have to FTP from one remote site to local
drive and then from local drive to another remote site.

Thanks all.

I suspect that the reason for this is that it is a limitation of FTP as a
protocol, as no command exists to just move a file. If the client were to do
this for you, it would hide the download to the local drive, and the upload
to another location, and would call the process file moving, but it really
would only batch the process. Either way you need to have local space
available for temporary file storage. I know of no client that will do this
for you, as for most it would seem redundant.
HK

 

[JanC]

I suspect that the reason for this is that it is a limitation of FTP
as a protocol, as no command exists to just move a file.

What he wants is a client program for server-to-server transfers, often
called "FXP". (And yes, that's allowed by RFC-959)

A transfer works something like this:
- set the data connection IPs on both servers to the other server's IP
- then send a "STOR" to the receiving server
- and a "RETR" to the sending server

 

[JanC]

I'm looking for remote-to-remote ftp client. FTP clients like
Filezilla and SmartFTP are very nice but they cannot do FTP from one
remote site to another remote site directly. You have to FTP from one
remote site to local drive and then from local drive to another remote
site.

Search for freeware "FXP" programs.