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My First ColdFusion 8 CFFTP Experience - Rocky But Triumphant

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Yesterday, I performed my first ever ColdFusion CFFTP task. I've needed to perform FTP tasks from ColdFusion before but required sFTP functionality, which was only added in ColdFusion 8. As such, until now, I have only ever used third-party utilities. I got the ColdFusion 8 secure FTP to work, but it took me a while to figure it out all. I am sure others will run into similar road blocks, so I thought I'd share my learnings.

The first thing we want to do is create a large test file to upload (PUT) to our FTP account:

<!--- Get the file name of this test file. --->
<cfset strFilePath = ExpandPath( "./test.txt" ) />

<!---
	Create a really large file. We need to do this because a
	small file will be uploaded no matter what the timeout it
	on the CFFTP.
--->
<cfsavecontent variable="strText">
<cfloop index="intI" from="1" to="100000" step="1"
>This is a really large file with a massive amount of text.
</cfloop>
</cfsavecontent>

<!--- Write the text to the test file. --->
<cffile
	action="write"
	file="#strFilePath#"
	output="#strText#"
	/>

Here, we are just creating a file path (to be used throughout this example) and writing about 6 MB of data to it. It is important that the file be large because that's when things get a little bit more exciting.

The next thing we need to do is define our connection properties. We could do this inline with the ColdFusion 8 CFFTP tag, but using the AttributeCollection gives us the ability to cache the connection information in our site's configuration mechanism:

<!--- Set up the FTP configuration. --->
<cfset objFTPProperties = {
	Server = "****************",
	Port = "***",
	Username = "bnadel",
	Password = "******",
	Secure = true
	} />

Ok, now that we have our test file and our sFTP configuration object in place (for use with the tag's AttributeCollection), let's go ahead and try to upload (PUT) the file to the remote FTP server:

<!---
	Now that the file has been written, we need to FTP it.
	Let's create a connection object that will be used for
	the following FTP commands.

	When we name this connection, "objConnection", ColdFusion
	caches the connection and allows us to execute future FTP
	commands on this connection without passing in login
	credentials or configuration.
--->
<cfftp
	action="open"
	connection="objConnection"
	attributeCollection="#objFTPProperties#"
	/>

<!--- "Put" the SQL file to cached connection. --->
<cfftp
	action="putfile"
	connection="objConnection"
	localfile="#strFilePath#"
	remotefile="/home/bnadel/#GetFileFromPath( strFilePath )#"
	transfermode="auto"
	/>

<!--- Close the connection. --->
<cfftp
	action="close"
	connection="objConnection"
	/>

There's a couple of things going on here. First, we are naming our sFTP connection, "objConnection." By doing this, it gets ColdFusion 8 to cache to the connection to the FTP server. This allows us to execute additional FTP commands on the cached connection without using our configuration attributes. That is why only the OPEN command uses the AttributeCollection; the PUT and CLOSE commands simply refer to the name of the cached connection.

Simple enough, right? Unfortunately, this does not work. When running the above code, ColdFusion throws the following exception:

An error occurred during the sFTP putfile operation. Error: putFile operation exceeded TIMEOUT. java.io.IOException: putFile operation exceeded TIMEOUT.

Ok, that make sense; I'm uploading a 6 MB file and the default timeout for FTP commands is 30 seconds.

To fix this, I went to increase the timeout of the PUT command to 300 seconds (5 minutes):

<!---
	"Put" the SQL file to cached connection. This time, put
	a 5 minute timeout on the PUT command. This should be more
	than enough to handle the file size.
--->
<cfftp
	action="putfile"
	connection="objConnection"
	localfile="#strFilePath#"
	remotefile="/home/bnadel/#GetFileFromPath( strFilePath )#"
	transfermode="auto"
	timeout="300"
	/>

The connection is really fast so 5 minutes should be no problem for 6 MB. However, when I integrated this PUT file with the above example, I got the same exact error:

An error occurred during the sFTP putfile operation. Error: putFile operation exceeded TIMEOUT. java.io.IOException: putFile operation exceeded TIMEOUT.

Maybe 5 minutes wasn't enough. I tried pumping it up to 8 minutes. Still no luck.

After pouring over the ColdFusion live docs for a while, it suddenly occurred to me: the timeout attribute doesn't go on the PUT command. I don't know if this is true for one-off commands, but when we are using a ColdFusion cached connection (named connection), the Timeout attribute must be included in the OPEN command. This way, the Timeout will define the timeout of all commands executed on that cached connection.

So, no problem, I went ahead and put the Timeout in the OPEN CFFTP command:

<!---
	Now that the file has been written, we need to FTP it.
	Let's create a connection object that will be used for
	the following FTP commands.

	This time, let's move the TimeOut property to the OPEN
	command. This will put the timeout property into our
	cached connection object for use on all commands.

	When we name this connection, "objConnection", ColdFusion
	caches the connection and allows us to execute future FTP
	commands on this connection without passing in login
	credentials or configuration.
--->
<cfftp
	action="open"
	connection="objConnection3"
	timeout="300"
	attributeCollection="#objFTPProperties#"
	/>

<!--- "Put" the SQL file to cached connection. --->
<cfftp
	action="putfile"
	connection="objConnection3"
	localfile="#strFilePath#"
	remotefile="/home/bnadel/#GetFileFromPath( strFilePath )#"
	transfermode="auto"
	/>

<!--- Close the connection. --->
<cfftp
	action="close"
	connection="objConnection3"
	/>

I was feeling confident when I refreshed the page. As it was running, I monitored the progress of the FTP upload using FileZilla. Every few seconds, I would refresh the remote directory listing in FileZilla to see how big the file size was. When it got to 6 MB, I was excited - it has worked! But then, I was shocked to switch back to the web page and find the following error:

The request has exceeded the allowable time limit Tag: cfftp. The error occurred on line 210. An error occurred during the sFTP putfile operation. Error: putFile operation exceeded TIMEOUT. java.io.IOException: putFile operation exceeded TIMEOUT

When I saw the line:

putFile operation exceeded TIMEOUT

... I assumed the FTP just timed out again. So I increased the Timeout value and ran it again. And, once again, the same problem - the file finished uploading according to FileZilla, but the page kept reporting that the PUT command timed out. What was going on? I started looking at the log files and messing with the timeout value and going back over the documentation.

What had I missed?!? It seemed to be both working and failing at the same time?

Then it occurred to me! The above error is actually telling us two things: the PUT file exceeded the timeout and the request had exceeded the allowable time limit. Of course! The request! This time, it wasn't the FTP command that was timing out, it was the page itself. What was happening was that the ColdFusion sFTP PUT command was finishing properly, but when it returned, the executing page timed out.

The fix for this was simple:

<!---
	Give the page some extra time to execute since we are going
	to be executing some large FTP commands.
--->
<cfsetting requesttimeout="300" />

By increasing both the timeout of the cached CFFTP connection as well as the timeout of the page, everything went smoothly.

So, it was a bit of a rocky start with ColdFusion 8's CFFTP tag, but once I got all the kinks ironed out, I had some pretty powerful functionality.

I won't bother putting this in the example, but after I was done testing, I moved this into a CFThread tag so that it could run asynchronously as part of a list of scheduled tasks. By putting the CFFTP command in a CFThread, it eliminated the need for the CFSetting tag. ColdFusion threads launched using CFThread do not have a timeout; therefore, only the timeout of the CFFTP connection needs to be considered.

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Reader Comments

218 Comments

I have a small nitpick:
"There's a couple of things going on here. First, we are naming our sFTP connection, "objConnection." By doing this, it gets ColdFusion 8 to cache to the connection to the FTP server."

The way you wrote this makes it seem like naming your connection "objConnection" is doing something magical. Maybe it's the use of the quotes. I also don't think it's a 'caching' mechanism as much as it is a naming of a thread. Connection is an optional thing, but if you don't supply a connection name, CF will make one for itself.

Quote from the CFDocs: Name of the FTP connection. If you specify the username, password, and server attributes, and if no connection exists for them, ColdFusion creates one. Calls to cfftp with the same connection name reuse the connection.

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The biggest thing I ran into when I upgraded to CF 8 was that CF 8 required the connection attribute but the error you get without it "Null, Null" doesn't give you a clue that that is the problem.

15,848 Comments

@Todd,

I was just referencing some of the documentation:

When you establish a connection with cfftp action="open" and specify a name in the connection attribute, ColdFusion caches the connection so that you can reuse it to perform additional FTP operations. When you use a cached connection for subsequent FTP operations, you do not have to specify the username, password, or server connection attributes. The FTP operations that use the same connection name automatically use the information stored in the cached connection. Using a cached connection helps save connection time and improves file transfer performance..... Changes to a cached connection, such as changing retryCount or timeout values, might require reestablishing the connection.

Maybe I am using weird wording, but I was trying to get the above sentiment across. And, as I am new to the CFFTP world, I am not aware of all the ins-and-outs.

@Ian,

Yeah, the Null Null error on anything is frustrating :)

2 Comments

Thanks for writing up your experience with this. I just migrated to CF 8 and had this exact problem. Your instructions on solving it saved me a lot of time figuring it out.

15 Comments

To Todd and other readers, the purpose of naming your connection is so that you actually know which connection to refer to when making calls (e.g. lets say you have multiple FTP calls happening simutaneously). If you allow CF to create/name the call, you wont know which one to refer to during multiple FTP calls.

HTH,
Tom

As always, thanks for figuring this out for us!

34 Comments

Hi Ben

I was reading this post now and I saw a reference to the "retryCount" property of CFFTP.

I did some research into this and I must admit the documentation relating to this property is very minimal.

What I am wondering is:

1) Does this ONLY apply to the "open" action of CFFTP or other tags, as I've only seen it referenced in the "open" action.

2) If so, does this simply ensure that if a connection can't be established, that it tries [retrycount] number of times to establish the connection
OR
Does this mean that ANY CFFTP action attempt that fails (e.g. action="putfile") will retry [retrycount] number of times??

Any idea?

I was just laying in bed thinking about how to handle FTP file resumes if a file upload should get disrupted somehow and then I saw this post and reference to the "retrycount" property and was wondering if this is what I need? :)

Thanks

7 Comments

Thanks Ian for your post. you saved me a lot of hair,
ie. The biggest thing I ran into when I upgraded to CF 8 was that CF 8 required the connection attribute but the error you get without it "Null, Null" doesn't give you a clue that that is the problem

15,848 Comments

@Leigh,

I am confused as to what you are asking. This post was about FTP, but the link you listed was about HTTP. Are you asking about timing out in FTP or HTTP?

34 Comments

@Leigh

Dude that's insane to have such a huge XML file, especially since you are just reading it. Why don't you just generate your XML file from a database? It would save you so much processing time as 400 megs of XML is really insane I have seen some huge XML files but 400? Dude you need to rethink your structuring a little bit better I know that is killing your server when you request that file.

10 Comments

Hi All,

I should be a bit more specific.

I am looking for a file transfer solution through CF to upload a single file at a time (20-100megs). Looks like i'll use CFFTP to do after reading some posts.

The article i posted was mentioning issues with IIS and Windows server 2003 which i thought might effect the CFFTP but i could be wrong?

I've had trouble in the past with CF timing out when reading large xml files, but haven't attempted to copy large files at all.

I have a current client system that generates a massive XML file of property data (full push) which came to 400meg! This is a seperate issue i face in CF as i believe a COM object on a windows server is a solution after doing some research on how to read large files. *The xml is also encased inside a zip file full of images.

I've found i can only read into CF around 3.7 meg of XML data in 10mins before it times out.

Leigh

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Is there anything else that must be set-up/configured to allow ColdFusion 8 to establish a secure FTP connection? I have set-up multiple tests with various code configurations, each test results in a "User Authentication failed" error. I can connect to the secure FTP server using CoreFTP or psFTP which confirms my user parameters, server, and port are correct.

7 Comments

Handy article..Ben

you may also want to set the fingerprint parameter to the cfftp tag for SFTP..

<cfsetting requesttimeout="600" />

<cfftp action = "open"
username = "***"
connection = "**********"
password = "*********"
fingerprint = "40:12:77:67:43:bb:2f:71:06:b8:3b:b7:ee:v5:ee:31"
server = "111.11.111.111"
secure = "yes"
timeout="300">

use Bitvise Tunnelier to get the fingerprint for your SFTP login

4 Comments

Ben,

Not sure if you're familiar with mainframe files or not, but here goes. One of our processes FTP's a file to the mainframe, but one caveat is that we have to pre-allocate some of the parameters for the file, with CF8 they introduced a handy new action called "site" which would allow you to put in syntax to be run on the ftp server, so in this instance I'm running the following:

<cfftp connection="Myftp"
action="site"
actionparam="LITERAL SITE LRECL=2088 RECFM=FB CYLINDERS PRIMARY=3 SECONDARY=1">

Works great in CF8, the problem is that our production environment is still running CF7 and, unfortunately, we do not have plans to upgrade in the near future. Do you know of any similar commands in CF7 that I could use to accomplish this task?

Any guidance would be much appreciated.

Chuck

15,848 Comments

@Chuck,

Unfortunately, that is beyond my understanding. I've never even seen the Site feature before. If I come across anything, I'll let you know.

23 Comments

Hi Ben! I do not if i should ask this question or not, but i am bit in complexity.

Can we use cfftp to upload multiple files and insert the same in the database too at the same time.

is This possible.

1 Comments

Ben,
I've been able to make the ftp connection to the server ok. but I'm having trouble uploading a file to a remote server. I have the correct path on the remote server and that looks ok. what I'm having trouble with is I use a form to look up the file I want to upload, which give a honking long filename, nothing like the real filename. I always get an error that says it can't make the file. any suggestions on what's going on here?

7 Comments

Terri,

Just double check you have the correct permissions on the folder..sometimes easy to overlook

You could test with a normal upload function to see if you can write files ok

15,848 Comments

@Terri,

If it is giving you a really long file name, it's probably giving you the .TMP file path (extracted from the FORM). What you need to do is actually save the file to disk first (using CFFILE) and then upload the destination file.

12 Comments

Chris and Ben,

Have you guys tried to secure ftp into a unix box using just the username and pub/pivate key access methods?

7 Comments

Tony

I use the secure ftp to transfer video files from a windows server to a linux server and this works like a dream..

I do pass in the fingerprint parameter...but I guess the determining factor is the sftp service you have setup on your unix box as to how you can get this to work with the cfftp tag.

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Thanks for the post. I spent like 3 hours trying to figure out why it kept on timing out. But it was worse for me, on our Dev server it worked right away, but on the test I kept on getting a read time out error. But when I put the longer timeouts in the open connection and on the calling page seems to have solved the problem.

15,848 Comments

@Roman,

Glad you got it working; ColdFusion is sometimes funny that way, in that it won't timeout while a 3rd party interaction is executing; it will only timeout once that process has returned.

12 Comments

Perhaps this has been mentioned before on your blog but I didn't have luck Googling for it. I just resolved an issue that's pretty trivial but misleading and figured I'd put it here so someone else can find the solution.

So, I had FTP code written that worked perfectly fine. I know I hadn't changed the code - but I had changed related code. Basically the code would connect, change to a directory, put a file, close the connection. Simple, right? Well, it wasn't working. It basically connected and timed out -- similar to what Ben talks about. However, the circumstances were different than what Ben talks about. I connected to the FTP server with FileZilla and found out the file was created but it had a filesize of 0 bytes. Long story short, I upgraded to Windows 7 from Windows Vista and Windows 7 Firewall hates ColdFusion FTP out of the box -- it's fine with making a connection and creating a file.. but sending file content gets blocked. I added a rule and all was well.

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@Josh Olson,

What did you have to add as a rule in Windows 7 firewall to open up cfftp? I'm having a similar problem where I can't download files using cfftp on a Windows 7 machine unless the firewall is turned off.

I can get the files just fine using ftp from the command line. The first time I tried the windows 7 firewall asked me and I opened it up, really wish it would do that when cfftp tries.

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Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Advanced Settings

Inbound Rules > New Rule

Program > Next

This program path: %SystemDrive%\ColdFusion\d\runtime\bin\jrun.exe > Next

Allow the connection > Next

Your preference > Next

Name: JRun Free Reign > Next > Finish

Repeat for Outbound Rules.

That's what I did on my development machine... which is obviously pretty open. For production, you'll probably want to go with Custom rule creation and set up ports for FTP (20, 21, etc.). For a complete list, there's this: http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers and Google. :)

Good luck!

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@Josh Olson,

Thanks a bunch for the Firewall help.

Oh and keep up the great work Ben. I lost count how many times I've found an answer to a question or problem about Coldfusion on your site.

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I am using the following code to transfer files from one server to another and used it successfully in the past to transfer files of sizes close to 100 MB but I have recently been upgrading the code and having trouble getting back response once file is transferred. File do get transferred but coldfusion page keep showing the the same page as transfer is happening. If I stop the execution of page and then try doing it again, I start to get error page after long time with cflock errors. Do you have any idea why is it happening?

<cfftp
action="open"
server = "#request.Server#"
username = "#request.Username#"
password = "#request.Password#"
timeout = "3600"
connection = "ftpconnect"
passive="no"
stoponerror="yes" />

<cfftp action="existsdir" connection="ftpconnect" directory="#request.FTPDir#/#arguments.FileID#">
<cfif cfftp.returnValue eq 'no'>
<cfftp action="createdir" connection="ftpconnect" directory="#request.FTPDir#/#arguments.FileID#">
</cfif>

<cfftp action="existsdir" connection="ftpconnect" directory="#UploadDirectory#">
<cfif cfftp.returnValue eq 'no'>
<cfftp action="createdir" connection="ftpconnect" directory="#UploadDirectory#">
</cfif>

<cfftp
action="putfile"
connection="ftpconnect"
localfile="#SourceDirectory#\#arguments.FileToUpload#"
remotefile="#UploadDirectory#/#arguments.FileToUpload#"
transfermode="auto"
/>

<cfftp action="close" connection="ftpconnect">
<cflocation url="mainpage.cfm" addtoken="no">

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we have an ftp process that moves files from one server to another. I want to give the user the ability to browse the folder they want to ftp to the other server. I have not had any luck getting this to work. Since the folders are in different locations each time they want to ftp them it would be easier for the user to be able to browse to the folder and select it. I have tried letting the user select a file in the directory and then trying to read the directory, but ColdFusion just gives me a temporary folder to upload from. Is this a security feature of Windows?

Mike

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Nice this worked perfectly fine for me.

and
@ Mike, please rephrase your problem as I would like to help answer it though I couldn't clearly visualize your problem

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I was using cf9 ftp functions do download files from an msftp server. Last month something changed on the remote server, now nothing downloads. I think the remote server may be using virtual directories now. When I make the connection and do a "listDir" its empty.

For some reason when cfftp logs in, it doesn't get forwarded into the correct directory. Getcurrentdir shows "/" and should show "/myusername"

Any Ideas?

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Thanks Ben. I had the same issue you mention in this post with CF9. After doing everything you mentioned, I still got the dreaded "Error: putfile operation exceeded timeout." error. I am using a named connection.

After some searching, I found http://www.webmasterkb.com/Uwe/Forum.aspx/cold-fusion/17299/CFFTP-Bug-in-8-0-1 (Kumar Chandan's post from 02 May 2008 09:48 GMT), which gave me the idea to add a timeout attribute to the putfile operation (in addition to the open operation). After adding this, it worked.

Going off of your example, here is the updated code:

<cfftp
action="open"
connection="objConnection3"
timeout="300"
attributeCollection="#objFTPProperties#"
/>
 
<!--- Add timeout to putfile operation --->
<cfftp
action="putfile"
connection="objConnection3"
localfile="#strFilePath#"
remotefile="/home/bnadel/#GetFileFromPath( strFilePath )#"
transfermode="auto"
timeout="300"
/>
 
<cfftp
action="close"
connection="objConnection3"
/>
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I have been reading this thread and it's comments for awhile now. I am still getting the exceeding time out error here is my code

<cfsetting requestTimeout="10000" />
<cfftp connection = "bCExport"
	action = "open"
	username = "user"
	password = "pass"
	server = "ftp.website.net"
	timeout="300"
	/>
	 
<cfftp connection = "bCExport"
	action = "putfile"
	localfile="#savePath##constantfileName#"
	remotefile="/#constantfileName#"
	transfermode="auto"
	timeout="300"
	/>
	 
<!--- Close connection --->
<cfftp connection = "bCExport"
	action = "close"
	/>

Any idea why it is not working still?

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@Meensi, I tried adding and removing slashes but they are correct. Wouldn't I be getting a different error if the paths were incorrect?

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@Alexander, try adding passive=true

This was what caused me to keep getting timeouts when I was doing cfftp in the past.

<cfftp connection = "bCExport"
action = "putfile"
localfile="#savePath##constantfileName#"
remotefile="/#constantfileName#"
transfermode="auto"
timeout="300"
passive=true
/>
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I tried running the code but I am getting an error on connection open command.
The error message is:
An error occurred while establishing an sFTP connection.
Verify your connection attributes: username, password, server, fingerprint, port, key, connection, proxyServer, and secure (as applicable). Error: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect.

I tried connecting to FTP using the same credentials using FTP client and it connected successfully. I guess my server doesn't support SFTP connections. What should I do to make my server support SFTP as well?

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Hey Ben,

I'm using cfftp to open a connection and put some files on a server.
Now I need to list some files and be able to download them, using the atribute action = getfile. What I intend to do is, when the user click the link, the 'Save as' dialog box opens, and allows to choose where to save the file, but in cfftp tag, I have to use the "localfile" to set file's destination. Do you know some way to make it work with the dialog box?

Thank you in advance!

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This is driving me nuts. I can make one connection to the SFTP server. Just one. Any further attempts to connect to it just hang until, well, forever, so far as I can tell. At least until I forcibly restart coldfusion. I know the hanging has lasted at least 36 hours, which I'm pretty sure is longer even than the underlying timeout in the JVM. That's about as long as I was willing to let it go.
Even using CFThread doesn't seem to make a difference. One SFTP connection, one time, then it's done.

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I need to do an SFTP using CF7 (I know). I see Ben says he used a third party utility. Is there a post about how to do that? Our production has not been updated to CF10 yet and I need to apply these SFTP changes now.

Thanks for any assistance.

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