pure-ftp

[parkerbw]

I need to set pure-ftp's default download to be binary. Is there an easy way of doing this?

 

[nokernel]

You must do that from the client's side. Pureftpd will do what the client ask him to do.

But you can see if there is some information about it in their documentation .

http://www.pureftpd.org/README

 

[parkerbw]

I am sending this link in an email to my customers which automatically logs them into my ftp server and downloads the filename.zip
If I need to put the binary mode here on the client side, what should I add to this ftp link to force binary ?

I have tested this and it works great for ascii.

ftp://useridassword@ipaddress/filename.zip

 

[nokernel]

It depend what is his ftp client. By default I think that most of the ftp client are using binary for file transfert.

 

[smah]

parkerbw, if your customers are using IE as their FTP client, your link won't work.

 

[ericbrunson]

I know this is totally not the answer to the question 'how can I make an ftp client do what I want', but smah's posting made me think:

You may consider providing the file via HTTP, where you can provide a content-type to aid in disposition. Besides, more people know how to work a browser than an FTP client, and most browsers are tied into the GUI environment.

Off-topic (and I hate it when others do it to my questions) but a thought.