Another option is to consider looking at the JSch library. JSch seems to be the preferred library for a few large open source projects, including Eclipse, Ant and Apache Commons HttpClient, amongst others. It supports both user/pass and certificate-based logins nicely, as well as all a whole host of other yummy SSH2 features. Here’s a … Read more
Jaminto did a great job of answering the question, but I recently went through the process myself and wanted to expand on Jaminto’s answer. I’m assuming that you already have an EC2 instance created and have associated an Elastic IP Address to it. Step #1: Install vsftpd SSH to your EC2 server. Type: > sudo … Read more
Active and passive are the two modes that FTP can run in. For background, FTP actually uses two channels between client and server, the command and data channels, which are actually separate TCP connections. The command channel is for commands and responses while the data channel is for actually transferring files. This separation of command … Read more
You could rely on wget which usually handles ftp get properly (at least in my own experience). For example: wget -r ftp://user:pass@server.com/ You can also use -m which is suitable for mirroring. It is currently equivalent to -r -N -l inf. If you’ve some special characters in the credential details, you can specify the –user … Read more