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"Colin B Maharaj" <noreply@myhost.com> wrote in message
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> has anyone written an FTP server?

Yes.

> I am in the process of writing a simple one at the moment

I would suggest that you use a pre-made FTP component rather than writing
your own code from scratch.

> the PASV command seems tricky any ideas...

What is so tricky about it?  When you receive a PASV request, simply open
another listening server socket and then send back the IP and port that it
is listening on.  When the client performs a file transfer afterwards, the
client will connect to that second socket and send the data over it.  When
no PASV command has been sent yet before a transfer, there is no second
socket available on your server's end, so the client would have to open its
own server socket which your server would then connect to instead for the
transfer.

> Is the source for the IdFTP (client they have no server)
> available anywhere???

Yes.  Indy is open-source, the full source code is always available.


Gambit