CuteFTP Professional User s Guide 

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O TIMEOUT WHEN CONNECTING TO AN UNAVAILABLE HOST

If the Transfer Engine s Connection method refuses to timeout when connecting to a non 

existing or temporarily unavailable host, try setting the throw error to true.  The Connection 

method does not have a built in timeout value. It will keep trying to connect indefinitely. 

Because the event is synchronous, subsequent lines in the script, including conditional 

statements for determining the connection status of the TE, never get called.  

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Examples  

A few possible workarounds, and help for accepting and rejecting certificates: 

MySite.Option("AutoCloseMethod") = 2  1   auto accept, 2 

  auto reject, 0   default no auto 

MySite.Option("AutoCloseDelay") = 12   default value is 

60 sec 

Set Option("AutoCloseMethod") property to 1 or 2 in order 

for script can continue its processing: 

MySite.Option("AutoCloseMethod") = 1 will auto accept 

cert and continue 

MySite.Option("AutoCloseMethod") = 2 will auto reject 

cert a

  nd finish with error 

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y ite.Option("AutoCloseMethod") = 0 default: will not 

close prompt on timeout 

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IMEOUT STRATEGIES FOR THE 

W

AIT METHOD

The default timeout value for the Wait method is 21,805,184 milliseconds, whic  

h is 

approximately 6 hours. The timeout value is a SIGNED LONG data type, meaning its 

maximum possible value is 2,147,483,647 milliseconds, which is roughly 596.5 hours or j ust 

under 25 days.  This is probably enough time for even the slowest transfer. 

The Wait method supports a "0" timeout value which means "keep waiting forever or unt li 

the transfer reaches a state of CANCELED, FINISHED, ERROR, SUSPENDED, 

SKIPPED, or BLOCKED." 

You c n

a  also write scripts so that they check the condition of a transfer and if it is still in the 

"TRANSFERRING" state, to wait on it again. 

Three timeout strategies for long transfer tasks 

1.  

Specify a large timeout value in the script call   Because the first parameter to 

the Wait method is a task index, this example use  

s a " 1" which means "current 

task."  For this example, the timeout is

 60 * 60 * 1000 = 

 set for 10 hours or, 10 *

36000000 milliseconds. 

Example 

     strResult = strataFTP.

Wait(  1, 36000000 )

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