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"qyte" <gyte@vivodinet.gr> wrote in message
news:425cd0b5@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Is it possible to use the same client for a
> download and at the same time use it to
> browse the list contents of an ftp server?

No.  The FTP protocol does not support that, thus nethier does TIdFTP, or
any other FTP component for that matter.  The FTP protocol can only do one
thing at a time.  If you want to perform multiple operations at a time, then
you need to make multiple connections to the server.

> Should i better have two clients instead?

Yes.

> Another thing i was wondering an i found that
> using a web browser. I see that a web browser
> (for example mozilla firefox) does not stay all the time
> connected with the server. In fact whenever i try to
> acces the contents of a folder it always says
> connecting in it's status bar.
> Is this approach better? i mean connect->list->disconnect.
> or connect->Get->disconnect.

No.  Stay connected as long as you actually need.

> I use that for the moment because if i connect and
> stay inactive for a while the server disconnects me
> and somehow the client cannot tell if the connection
> has been reset.

Call the Noop() method periodically.


Gambit