{"id":250,"date":"2006-07-14T22:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/?p=250"},"modified":"2006-07-14T22:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T22:26:00","slug":"250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/250\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTP is a strange beast. For a protocol that predates the web&#8217;s http, it&#8217;s amazing how often today it doesn&#8217;t work. I use Panic&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/panic.com\/transmit\/\">Transmit<\/a> most often, and Panic do good work.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes though, Transmit fails, for no good reason. When it does, I usually revert back to the command line ftp program in the Terminal. It&#8217;s archaic, but I learnt to use it at university many moons ago and I&#8217;m glad to have the option.<\/p>\n<p>If that fails too, I smell a rat. This protocol should have been perfected by now, and somehow someone&#8217;s either sent me the wrong login details or is using a non-standard server. It&#8217;s happened twice now.<\/p>\n<p>So, the workaround: use the Finder. It&#8217;s basic, but it connected without any problems, instead of weird error messages. Remember the Finder next time ftp falls over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTP is a strange beast. For a protocol that predates the web&#8217;s http, it&#8217;s amazing how often today it doesn&#8217;t work. I use Panic&#8217;s Transmit most often, and Panic do good work. Sometimes though, Transmit fails, for no good reason. When it does, I usually revert back to the command line ftp program in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/250\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/funwithstuff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}