Flaw in FTP-to-SFTP Bridge

[Dallman Ross]

Tom Olin <tmp05d15 at tomolin.net> wrote:

> I use the FTP-to-SFTP bridge to overcome Adobe GoLive 6's 
> lack of SFTP support. Unfortunately, GoLive uses the 
> "-a" option when listing directories, and the bridge 
> treats the option as a specified path. The server 
> responds with a "550 -a: Not a directory." error.

Good catch.  While we're revisiting the FTP-to-SFTP
bridge, I want to state that my issue with Control-M
chars showing up on FTP transfers to a Unix system is
still present.  I had hoped maybe the coding work
done for the upgrade to ver. 3.0 would fix that. :-(

When I use regular FTP without the bridge, the problem
does not happen.  When I use a bridge offered by another
vendor, the problem also does not happen!  But I like
other features of MindTerm's product better.

I went ahead and installed GNU "flip" on my FreeBSD
web host so I could deal with the fallout from this
issue.  But I would like it so much better if the
MindTerm bridge handled this correctly itself!

Like Tom, I use the bridge to overcome missing SFTP
support in the client I use for web design,
Macromedia's Dreamweaver MX (ver. 6.1).

Regards,
Dallman Ross