LITTLEBLACKDOG.COM

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:40 pm Post subject: Apple's FTP + Little White Cat

i tried upload some stuff via CLI ftp the other day, and all the images were corrupted once they were on the server. i tried connecting through Finder->Go->Connect to Server->ftp://www.littlewhitecat.com/ (is that just a front end for CLI ftp?) but my connection kept timing out.

has anyone else put stuff on littlewhitecat from their mac?

i'm running latest panther updates, etc, etc. i haven't tried a third party ftp client yet.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:50 pm Post subject:

I vaguely recall having grief FTPing to my own web server whilst in Mac-land. I tried a 3rd party FTP program (forgot the name) and all was well. So maybe you should stop your search there.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:58 pm Post subject:

this is very weird... every image in your directory is corrupt.

there should be no reason for it to be an FTP client/server issue. I noticed you attempted to CHMOD the directory after it was transfered. Try sending a file or two and try to view them before you do anything else.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:04 pm Post subject:

pay attention to things like passive mode, and other modern FTP settings.
Macs leave forked files in general if they think they are working with a native file system. You might not be in binary mode either, although that is such a simple thing I doubt it.

If I can remember my LWC password I could test it out with my mac.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 4:02 pm Post subject:

Olive wrote:
this is very weird... every image in your directory is corrupt.

i've noticed its not just a problem with mac ftp. i transfered those images from a debian box, and i transfered some movies earlier with windows command line ftp client and they all ended up corrupt.

i was chmoding because the images weren't being shown, and i thought it might be a permissions issue, but then i realized they were corrupt Sad

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guess i'll try a few more things.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 6:42 pm Post subject:

I haven't tried the FTP on my system as of yet -

... will let you know what the evil experimentation brings forth~

*You wacky UNIX users~ Wink

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 10:46 pm Post subject:

OhioArt2 wrote:
*You wacky UNIX users~

The moment you touched OSX, you became a UNIX babe.

Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject:

Lycander wrote:
OhioArt2 wrote:
*You wacky UNIX users~

The moment you touched OSX, you became a UNIX babe.

O2 "UNIX BABE" ....... Has a nice ring to it Big Smile

Posted: Fri Feb 06, 2004 8:14 am Post subject:

i just used Captain FTP *AAARGGHHHH* and it transfered images fine. i got it at version tracker.

before that i tried FTP Thingy and got the same results as CLI ftp. i made sure i was transferring passive. this last time (which is on by default).

so to get the pictures of the debian box, i connected to it via ftp on my Mac and then used Captain FTP, which saw it as just another drive on the system. it took a while to route things from my school's server (the debian box) through my laptop to LWC, but it worked, and that's all i cared about.