VBScript

Set FTP Connection and Read Timeouts

Demonstrates the timeout properties ConnectTimeout, ReadTimeout, and IdleTimeoutMs.

Background: The three timeouts guard different phases: ConnectTimeout (in seconds) bounds how long a connection attempt blocks so an unreachable server fails promptly; ReadTimeout (seconds) limits how long a data connection may stall without new data; and IdleTimeoutMs (milliseconds) caps a lack of forward progress overall. Tuning them prevents a hung server or flaky link from freezing an automated job indefinitely.

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Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set ftp = CreateObject("Chilkat.Ftp2")

ftp.Hostname = "ftp.example.com"
ftp.Username = "myFtpLogin"

'  Maximum seconds to wait for the TCP connection to be accepted.
ftp.ConnectTimeout = 15

'  Maximum seconds a data connection may go without receiving more data before timing out.
ftp.ReadTimeout = 30

'  Maximum milliseconds without a control-channel response or forward progress before failing.
ftp.IdleTimeoutMs = 20000

'  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
'  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
ftp.Password = "myPassword"

success = ftp.Connect()
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine("Connected with custom timeouts.")

success = ftp.Disconnect()
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(ftp.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If


outFile.Close