Introduction

There is a File Transfer Protocol (FTP) server available for use with application testing and the CI reference environments.

• Domain name: ftp.ci.folio.org
• Username: folio Password: Ffx29%pu

The data store is short-lived and there is automatic cleanup after a certain age.

Both sftp clients and plain ftp clients can be utilised.

There is only one user (folio).

The data is stored in that user space at the /ftp/files/ directory. Within that space, files and sub-directories can be created and deleted as needed. There are no restrictions.

sftp

Background information: SSH File Transfer Protocol (also known as “Secure File Transfer Protocol” or SFTP).

Command-line client example:

$ sftp folio@ftp.ci.folio.org
... password
sftp> get test-get.txt
sftp> bye

curl client examples:

# Download:
curl -k "sftp://ftp.ci.folio.org/ftp/files/test-get.txt" \
  --user "folio:########" -o "get.txt"

# Upload and new sub-directory:
curl -k "sftp://ftp.ci.folio.org/ftp/files/newdir/" --ftp-create-dirs \
  --user "folio:########" -T "test-put.txt"

ftp

Background information: File Transfer Protocol (also known as FTP).

The “Anonymous FTP access” is not enabled by this service.

Command-line client example:

$ ftp ftp.ci.folio.org
... password
ftp> cd files
ftp> get test-get.txt
ftp> bye

curl client examples:

# Download:
curl -k "ftp://ftp.ci.folio.org/files/test-get.txt" \
  --user "folio:########" -o "get.txt"

# Upload and new sub-directory:
curl -k "ftp://ftp.ci.folio.org/files/newdir/" --ftp-create-dirs \
  --user "folio:########" -T "test-put.txt"

Cleanup

A cron job will automatically remove old files.

The current setting is after 7 days.

Contact FOLIO DevOps if there is a need to vary that in special circumstances.

Of course the command-line clients and curl can be used to tidy, when files and directories are no longer needed.