How do I enable FTP resume?

John Savill

January 8, 2000

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A. IIS 5.0, the version that ships with Windows 2000 has a number ofenhancements. One of which is the FTP resume mode which if a download is haltedand you disconnect, upon reconnecting you will be asked if you wish to resumethe download. This is very useful for downloads of large files.

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This functionality does not work using the command level FTP provided withWindows NT 4.0, however software packages such as WS_FTP Pro from www.ipswitch.comallow this.

FTP Resume is turned on by default in Windows 2000 but as far as I know it isnot possible in IIS 4.0 or lower.

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