Possible to allow FTP along with SFTP?

[shrey]

I have an IoT device that can connect only via FTP (and not SFTP).
Currently, it seems that's not possible.

is there a workaround for such a situation?

[girish]

FTP and SFTP are totally different protocol (as you probably know). Currently, there is no way to use FTP with Surfer.

So, an IoT device is uploading files to Surfer via FTP ? Maybe you can get it uploaded some other place and then sync into surfer periodically.

[robi]

You may wish to explore the WebDAV capabilities of Surfer.

[shrey]

@girish said in Possible to allow FTP along with SFTP?:

Maybe you can get it uploaded some other place and then sync into surfer periodically.

That was precisely what i was trying to use 'Surfer' for

[shrey]

@girish
Also, if not Surfer, is FTP possible for any of the other apps within Cloudron, example, XBackBone?

[nebulon]

Not an FTP expert, but from what I remember when we added sftp (which is not ftp) in ftp(s), depeding on active or passive mode, we need to dynamically open ports for the file transfer. This is not ideal in a setup where lock down as many ports as possible, especially a problem if we don't know the ports in advance. But I might be wrong in this assessment.

[girish]

IIRC the issues with FTPS where:

• The modern certs were not accepted by old devices
• Old devices did not have a way to ignore cert either
• Have to open a bunch of ports for passive mode
• Overall, this meant we have to support FTP which is insecure. So, we have decided not to.