Server to Server File Transfer

[AlecWest]

I have FTP access to two completely different web servers. Is there a software utility that will allow me to transfer files between those two servers ... without having them first download to my computer?

[mats.hogberg]

Unless you can launch (and control) a FTP client on one of the servers, I think there's no way to do that.

/Mats

[Soopafresh]

Actually, yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_eXchange_Protocol

The most popular app: http://www.inicom.net/pages/en.ffxp-home.php

[BJ_M]

flashFXP as mentioned above is not only the best ftp client ever sold - but it is perfect for ftp to ftp transfer ....

[AlecWest]

Soopafresh and BJ_M,

Live and learn (grin). I was actually hoping for an alternative to FlashFXP because I was trying it without success. But I think BJ_M provided the answer as to why. I have one server with a bunch of files in an HTTP directory that I wanted moved to the HTTP directory of another server. And it looks like FlashFXP will only do it if it's dealing with two FTP directories (blush).

Funny, but I used to do these kind of HTTP to HTTP transfers all the time back in the good old days when the web was primarily text-based ... and I used telnet access and Lynx. Nowadays, though, a lot of hosts don't let people have telnet access.

Of course, I might not be out of luck. There may be a way, using my control panel access and "file manager," to move the files from the HTTP directory to the FTP directory ... and then I could use FlashFXP to move them to the 2nd server's FTP directory. Then using the control panel and "file manager" on the second server, move the files from its FTP directory back into an HTTP directory.

Sigh - there are times when I miss Lynx. Thanks for your help.

[AlecWest]

Followup - Nope, not even that worked. I was able to move a file from the HTTP directory to the FTP directory on Server #1. But, when I attempted to transfer it from the FTP directory of Server #1 to the FTP directory of Server #2, it did the same thing it did when I attempted to transfer between HTTP directories ... namely give me the STOR command, pause for a few seconds, then show me a 0-byte filename existed on Server #2 with a name beginning with:

.pureftpd.xxxxxxx (etc.)

It could be that my servers simply disallow FXP protocol. Oh, well. Looks like I've got a lot of re-uploading to do (sigh). And yes, I swapped between PASV and NON-PASV mode with the same result.

[cd090580]

To use FXP, I think that both server must allow fxp transferts.

[AlecWest]

To use FXP, I think that both server must allow fxp transferts.

Yup ... and I think that's the stone wall I'm running into. Oh, well.