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4.2.5.3. FTP Server Gateway Out

With a Ftp Server Out Gateway, outgoing messages are available from a Babelway FTP server, where they can be fetched.

The specific settings are:

 Server 

 Babelway ftp server is the hostname for the ftp server where the files will be made available to download. 

 Username 

 Login or username to access your account on Babelway ftp server. This username must be unique as it is linked to a specific directory on the ftp server. 

 Password 

 Password associated with the username to access your account. 

 Directory 

 The directory on the ftp server into which the outgoing files will be written. 

 Filename 

 Filename of the outgoing message [with extension if applicable]. If empty, we will apply the default settings. 

 Time out 

 During how much time the file will be kept available on the FTP server. 

After this timeout, the file will be automatically removed from the FTP server (it you did not do it before). If the file was never downloaded, the file will also be marked in ERROR, because it has not reached its destination. 

To be warned the soonest possible of errors, we recommend that you set here the lowest possible value. Example : if an automatic process polls the files from here every hour, a value of "3 hours" will allow you to be notified of the problem after just 2 or 3 failed/missing pollings, while a value of "30 days" would lead to files leaving there, without any automatic notification, until some user worries about lack of files. 

After channel deployment, your ftp server will be available to receive messages. You can access this ftp server using any ftp client software set up with the previous account settings.

Note: 

  • The ports used for the FTP connections in Babelway are: (FTP, FTPs explicit : 20020-21020, FTPs implicit : 22021-23020).
  • If there is a file name provided in the "Message In" or "Message Out" which contain ~ tilde character, All browser based on Chromium will replace the ~ tilde character by the _ underscore character when you try to download the file from the Babelway interface, For more details you can check this link https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=479419
  • The maximum file size accepted by this gateway is 100/250 MB.