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Just a quick followup re FTP clients (and because I need to rant)...

Someone here said CuteFTP was OK. I've just had the displeasure of testing a
site with it.

It may work fine in "standard" environments, but it assumes too much about
the remote server and won't ignore unimportant errors if it can't get its
way.

So for instance, I've set up a drop box system with severely limited
permissions: every other FTP client I've tried, Mac PC and Unix, will upload
fine. CuteFTP throws an error because it can't "PWD" on login (and hence
won't upload, presumably because it doesn't know which directory it's in).
If you allow PWD it moans about not being able to CWD before uploading, and
*still* won't upload - grrr. Fine, I allowed CWD. But because accounts are
revoked as soon as an upload finishes, and CuteFTP won't believe the
server's "all OK" signal and has to refresh the listings to make sure, it
can't even tell the user the upload was successful. Arrrghhhhhh....

It's unreliable, badly coded rubbish. Steer well clear.

Oliver.