Keep FZ alive

[elbmek]

I have been using FZ Client for a couple of months now and, overall, am very pleased with it. But there is one thing it does which I hate - I upload lots of files to my sites, images, updates etc, and when I go off to find something or whatever, I come back and the connection has closed.

How do I maintain a full connection to the server until I close FZ it manually?

[boco]

Just to be clear, not FileZilla, but the server is disconnecting you. Some administrators set a ridiculously low timeout of one minute or less.

You can try to enable Keep-alive commands in the settings, but it's not guaranteed to work.

[elbmek]

Hi, no, its not the server. I was fine with the previous software. Thanks will have a look for Keep Alive

[boco]

The previous software may have sent keep-alive commands by default. And it is the server disconnecting, as FileZilla can stay connected literally forever.

[elbmek]

I changed a '20' to '0' but not had chance to use it yet.

[boco]

Connection timeout's got nothing to do with it. It's the server's fault, most of the time it is even dropping a message into the log.

Example from my server:

16:40:13 Response: 421 Idle Timeout (3600 seconds): closing control connection.
16:40:13 Trace: Unexpected reply, no reply was pending.
16:40:13 Error: Connection closed by server

Keep-alive commands might help, but please be aware FileZilla will stop sending them after 30 minutes. That's by design so you don't occupy servers forever.

[elbmek]

ta much. I can understand the FL max, I just want to open for a while, then I always close it manually anyway.

[boco]

Connection timeout set to 0 (blocking mode) hangs the connection in case of a problem. Setting a reasonable timeout value is preferred for automated error handling.

[elbmek]

oh ok, so maybe 99 ??

[mobylak]

How do i increase the time-out period in the settings? i can't find this option.

[elbmek]

edit, settings. Just looked. 9999 to disable