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FTP program - Resolved
Posted: Sun 22 Sep 2013 10:21 pm
by PaulMy
I had been using FileZilla v.3.6.0.2 with good success but now it appears that a .js file upload gets distorted during the upload. I have downloaded v.3.7.3 with the same result. What is another good FTP program?
Paul
Edit:
Upon further research I learned that transfer in binary is best, but slower, so changed my FileZilla setup to binery and my problem disappeared.
Paul
Re: FTP program - Resolved
Posted: Wed 25 Sep 2013 6:26 pm
by mcrossley
I think binary mode is generally recommended for virtually everything now, it avoids all sorts of possible character set translation issues. Text mode is OK for files that only contain standard ASCII characters, but extended character sets can be unpredictable.
Re: FTP program - Resolved
Posted: Thu 26 Sep 2013 12:32 am
by water01
but now it appears that a .js file upload
Another possibility is the way in which your editing program is encoding the file when saving the .js file before the upload. I have found that the best option when saving that type of file is "UTF-8 without BOM".
Re: FTP program - Resolved
Posted: Thu 26 Sep 2013 1:40 am
by PaulMy
Thanks for the confirmation. I now have Filezilla set as Binary, and Notepad++ as Encode in UTF-8 without BOM and all my uploads seem fine and
http://www.komokaweather.com/davconvp2CW.php seems to be working well.
Paul