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FTP directory Listing?

Sun, 2018-08-19 10:24 — bbpiper

HI ,

Trying to setup FTP Directory Listing, on a remote web server, when I set it up with the credentials I get error:

ftp: Command not found. (1) in the Activity Area.

What am I missing?

Sun, 2018-08-19 17:12 — David Sinclair

Re: FTP directory Listing?

Is it possible that the server doesn't have the ftp command? Seems highly unlikely, but I'm not sure what else it could be... and I could imagine it being disabled to prevent using an insecure one.

The FTP Directory Listing service is just a script; you can see the source if you edit it via the Services list. So you can try replicating that in Terminal to see if that gives any more info.

Fri, 2018-08-24 15:35 — bbpiper

Re: FTP directory Listing?

I am using the simon program on High Sierra and from what I can tell Apple has removed FTP and Telnet from Sierra and high Sierra for security reasons tried from the terminal and got errors there.

Fri, 2018-08-24 20:38 — David Sinclair

Re: FTP directory Listing?

Yes, that does appear to be the case. That's rather inconvenient.

If you do want to use them, this third-party blog post has a couple of solutions. I just found that via Google, so I can't vouch for the safety of that site.

Fri, 2018-09-14 04:02 — bbpiper

Re: FTP directory Listing?

I have done that , still the directory listing does not work in Simon.
In terminal I can login and display just fine.

What should the output look like?

Script type when I do edit is at C Shell: /bin/csh

Parameters below are as follows:
ftp -n -v {Domain} << EOF
user {Username} {Password}
cd {Directory Path}
ls
EOF

Fri, 2018-09-14 09:57 — David Sinclair

Re: FTP directory Listing?

That looks correct. But if you've installed a replacement ftp tool, you may need different parameters. Try doing it in Terminal to see what works, then replicate that in Simon.

I have removed the FTP Directory Listing service from Simon as of version 4.3b1 (currently in beta).