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Yeah, allowing (plain) FTP into your system from outside your firewall (except via VPN) is extremely dangerous. FTP is a plain-text protocol, and even networking beginners would be able to get the userid/password and use it against you.

But that wasn't really what this thread was about, was it? I assume the appropriate VPN is in place, and the people logging in are trusted business associates.

The question is how to trigger an action. Personally, I would either do so based on the FTP job *ending* (not the file transfer itself) or else I'd do it on a journal of a particular IFS directory (using appropriate locking checks to verify that the transfer has completed before processing.)

Though, a much better alternative is to replace the whole FTP process with a web service.

James H. H. Lampert wrote:

Which is why we don't allow any FTP traffic into our 400s from outside the firewall. And why the OP had better know all the consequences of opening the FTP port to outside traffic, whether he uses them or attempts to keep them from being used.



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