Journal bmabray's Journal: FTPGoat 3
New project: FTPGoat. This is one of those projects that should be at the bottom of my list, but because it would be useful, I may put off everything else and do it. :-)
FTPGoat is an FTP client similar to WS_FTP. So, why do I need it when WS_FTP is free? Because I can't get WS_FTP to function from work, thanks to our company's proxy. Two things do work, however: the built-in Windows command line FTP program (yuck) & Blog Goat. I'm guessing that programs created with Visual C++ are told the secret password to function properly through a proxy. Or something like that. Anyway, if that's what it takes to get a decent FTP program, that's what I'll do.
Active / Passive FTP (Score:1)
> are told the secret password to function properly
> through a proxy.
Could also be the difference between Active and Passive FTP. Sometimes firewalls and proxies won't allow passive so you have do it active... not sure if WS_FTP will let you choose which one to use, but it should....
Just a thought, though.. I could be way off
Re:Active / Passive FTP (Score:1)
I figured it had something to do with the software detecting proxy settings. I know some apps can read your proxy settings and use them, and I thought maybe that was one of the benefits of selling one's sou... I mean, using Microsoft Visual Studio.